Show final statement on saturday Satu aday february 21 1931 at richfield utah just five years to the day aay f from orri that date that the Ho honorable norale george M dacon bacon state engineer subhi submitted eted liis his proposed debern detern determination of walte rights on the sevier system ke hor arable leroy coy judge of the fifth judicial district made an order authorizing the filing of stipulations by chatis what is now termed the upper and lower zones of the river and aside from af afew ew minor rights still in dis dispute settled what has been termed the most far reaching and expensive piece of litigation ever instituted in the slate of Utah the farmers and writer users under this vest vast eftim HIM ati been burdened with almost unbearable rable I 1 assessments to meet ih the e ex pences necessary I 1 to carry on the adjudication but now that the smoke of battle has cleared away the fight feally ended ain adl W we believe matthe that the i f farmers a amers from very S section c t boil will say thatis has been worth the while for we believe that thatis it will vill for all time settle the question of priorities of the Sevier river and that new appropriators qi water under this system will be complied to take n otice notice of the rights that proceed them we believe that irwill have a tendency to establish estaba aa confidence in the primary users so that they can feel like going tind and and broad a use of 0 the rights established establish edin in themas thomasit it I 1 is possible for them to do in order for this vast area of co untidy Y covered by the sevier river system to advance to its ts peak of pr productivity t the lie ard rd r rasing sing generation must learn by In intensive cultivation to epresi the lie water overa greater grea ter area and thus th two spears pears of grass gras s growing now the last five years year s have been m marked ark edby by meetings of committees selected by the ilie peo people plein in th he elwer lc and upeor river baslis erd end the ibe final satisfactory settlement bett lement is due largely jo to the high character and broad of thee com mi cittee atee men the lower nver users were 11 E maxfield P PT T black neils peterson Peter soa A A hinkley wallace holman as the main committee aided by members of their boards of direct ors when needed while the upper river river users were represented by WY W T owen S M jorgensen L W jonap C E rowan jr 11 C larsen lars n and gilbert K beebe during all the deliberations of these committees engineers me aride and cottrell cottrel offered vain valuable abad suggestions that aided in inobe the sift ift fsr entangled or confuso rights in a most equitable qui table manner mr M r mcbride M who has been river commissioner during all the period perio dof of this liti litigation guon and who distributing the t lie waters un u n der the tha morse and higging decrees was of unusual service to the corn com mitties in tills this that bewis he was not only familiar camill ar with all of the fprd needs of the liti litigants gents but was straight foreward in his declarations of rights as he had constructed and distributed them under the two decrees judge cox under whose jurisdiction these rights were being td t d indicated iudica judica ted presided at the final th ii earing and exhibited exhibits d 4 very ery splendid grasp of the righta involved ard and a familiarity familiari tv of the pleadings as well as the contests af the di Deter mation submit submitted ed ly by mr bacon his energy in disposing of the preliminary features and urging the litigants liti gents in their final moments to reach an aarre able solution ori of their d differences iff erencen c contributed V very barg largely eay to the glorious celebration on of the he fifth anniversary of what has come coito to be known throughout t the river rimer system as bacons bacans Ba cons bible |