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Show I WATER GIVEN TO FARMERS Canal Company Provides Free Supply When River Is Low. Fifty cubic feet of water per second sec-ond wa siven nway this summer b the nals and Weber Counties "m-nal "m-nal company for a period of about three weeks dnrlnjc the late summer, according to officials of th. canal com pan v This wan without Injuring la any manner any of the rlRhts or priMl eg-es of the stockholders of the company com-pany as there wns more than enough en-ough WAK-r 1n the stora rSStrvolr In East canyon to more thnn supply all needs. AID TO PARMER The distributing of the water was a Kreat aid to th farmers that won forced to depend on the water of the icdcn rlr at a time when was very low and when the crops were burning tip in the late summer Robert C Nye. secretary -treasurer of the rompnny. said yesterday that such action was possible iu to ths fact that at the close or the Irrigation Irri-gation season the company hnd Mt'.r.-.l in Its reservoir. locnt'd I miles southeast of Murpan, about two-thlr.Js of the capacity of the reservoir. The reservoir Is made poaalble by a concrete, arched dnm from the top of which to bedrock la distance of 180 feet and which reservoir stores for Irrigation purpose approximately 28.onrt acre feet of water The diversion works aro located at the mouth of Weber canyon and th company owning sccondnrv right to ths waters of the Weber rler take water from the river during the flood season and does not use the water in tho reservoir TI RVS tt'ATFn INTO R1VJ&IC. When the flow of water in the Weber river begins to diminish so thnt the rights of the prior water -users are Imperiled the company Is notified and at such times turns into the Weber river through East canyon, can-yon, a tributary, 'he amount of water wa-ter that the company Intends to take out of the river Jit the diversion works phis nn added amount sufficient, suf-ficient, according to the estimates of tho state engineer, to supply that lost by seepage nnd c va poratlon. The water supplied by the company com-pany Is diverted through its concrete con-crete canal from the mouth of Weber We-ber canyon and has Its terminus near Rlverdale where It delivers water to the three branches, the south branch of which carries the water almost as far south as Kaysvllls! the west branch as far weal as Syracuse Sy-racuse and the north branch. The company Is capitalised for 10,000 ahares of stock with a par value of 150 per share nnd there Is outstanding nt present some I S00 shares of the capital stock, the market mar-ket value of which Is in the neigh- J borhood of $16o per share KAYSVTT,LE MAX HEAD. B. P. Ellison of Kaysville Is president; pres-ident; John O M P.irnes of Kays-vllle Kays-vllle la vice president who. with Thomas j. Thurgood, H. Herring-ton, Herring-ton, A. p. Blgelow and Richard Btrlnghan) and D, i Harris, superintendent, super-intendent, form the dlrectin The value of water for irrigation purpose In time of need la well Illustrated Il-lustrated by the difference In tin-value tin-value of the land above the canal J and below if. the land below the canal aelling from KO0 to fSOO per acre while the land not bci lb the canal and above It wlille of the antne character brings btit from $60 to $S'J per acre The company la at present engaged in collecting an assessment oi ? per Share from the stockholder fur ' the purpose of defraying expenses that have been made and tin- . i pensea of conducting the company |