Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-05 | Page 15 | Water Users Organize Here

i WATER USERS ORGANIZE HERE Weber River Interests Band Together and Elect Directors l i The Weber River System Water T'sers' afisoclation WSS formed at a inert Inn yesterday afternoon In District Dis-trict Judge George S. Barker's court room. The articles of Incorporation as proposed and read were adopted '"iid a directorate of seven members ected. Two additional members ar ;n bf electee as chosen by water user? residing In Morgan county which was not represented it. the meeting held yesterday. DIKED l Ks n MED. T. R. Jones of Kanesville and Geo-R. Geo-R. Taylor of Harrlsvlllo were elected to represent Weber count;, on the directorate, di-rectorate, James H. Cook Of South eber and John G. M. Barnes of KSys-ville KSys-ville to represent Davis county; nnd ;he names of John L. Gunn of Hoyts-Vllle Hoyts-Vllle nnd Levi Pearson of Oakley Were proposed by the Summit county delegation) dele-gation) the" members of which told the meeting that fliey were not sent irom Summit county as represents -Uvea but had happened to hear about . he meeting while in Ogden today and bad dropped in to sec what was going, on. John T. Bybee of Rlverdale was elected as the member at large. The directorate when completed ll 10 meet nnd elect the permanent officers of-ficers of the association for the I I -.suing year which will bo the term of the directorate. STATE ENGINEER PRESENT. It. K. Caldwell, state engineer. W present nnd addressed the meeting complimenting the large attendance I i n the spirit of co-operation that had been shown, lie expressed regret that the artit l -Of Incorporation which provide tl any company, association, or wat r user on the Weber river system is elig-I elig-I Ible to loin the association, made It impossible for hlin to become a mem-i mem-i bar. PREDICTS SUCH l SS He predicted the success o( the, association as-sociation and stated that there was ; greater mod today for such organ 1- tions than heretofore. He called at-( at-( terition to the former idea that the L public of 6 atate owned the unappro-fi unappro-fi printed water and pointed out that re- , f cently '-he federal government had i uled that all unappropriated water U was the property of the government This he said had aroused Suspicion J) ihat was unfounded and he pointed ' out that any action taken by the gov ernment was for the benefit of all con-! con-! cetrned. j PLEDGES SI PPORT. He pledged the association the sup-' port of the state engineer's offici expressed regret that Morgan county wob not represented at the meeting. J T. R. Jones of Kanesville acted as I temporary chairman and James it. iook of South Weber as temporary secretary. 1 The illrectorate was empowered to assess tho association on the basis of I iho acreage represented by tho membership mem-bership to carry on the work of the aioociation. There were SO water users present.