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Show DISMISS PETITION IN WATER ACTION SALT LAKE. Feb. 20. Dismissal of the petitidn of W. L Daugh of Cache Junction for a writ of prohibition, directed di-rected to the directors of the Cache county water conservation district No. l. in the vicinity of Cache Junctlou. Pelersboro and Mendon. which was designed to prevent the directors from selling 375,000 worth of bonds ol the district, has been made by the supreme su-preme court. The court decided that the petition did not state a cause of action, and that the proceedings were brought pre maturely The district directors had not yet obtained Irom the state certification commission authority to sell the bnudr. H was i-iat'-d Au amendment to the irrigation district law passed at the last Utah legislature provided that "the board (of directors) shall make no sale of bonds either at public or private sale, or use said bonds for payment of construction work: for less than the amount authorized by the state board of certification." The district directors now have an J application before the state boaj d, I which Is made up of the attorney general, gen-eral, the state engineer and the state i bank) commissioner, for the sale of $310,000 of the $375,000 bonds voted., 'at a price of 85, to Bradford. Weeden j ft Co. of San Francisco The district, according to the application, covers! 7600 acres, and to this a water allot-' ment of 17.878 acre-feet has been I made- and appro-, ed. The project for! I providing the water by pumping from; I Bear river Is 80 per cent complete. and the value of the water rights and! I works completed is placed at $350,000. , The lands are valued at $675 000 The application sets out that 60 per j cent of the value of the lands and j works covered by the bonds is. there ! fore, $615,000, or ample to cover the propose-d bond issue The irrigation works are at present owned by J. D. Skeen. I) A Skeen aud the Intel-mountain Sugar company I Agreement is proposed to purchase these lor the district at $275,000, with the proviso that the works shall be. completed according to the plans ol Uhe engineer, T. H. Humphreys. |