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Show Lehi Votes For Deer Creek Water terest in the community during the past week, the subject being on the lips of almost everyone about town. The merits of the question along with some opposition have been discussed dis-cussed pro and con. The feeling and opinion of the majority of the people peo-ple of the community was shown in the results of the election. o By a narrow margin of 24 votes, Lehi taxpayers voted in a special election held in the Memorial building build-ing Monday to subscribe for 500 acre feet of water from the Deer Creek project. The vote was 145 in favor of subscribing for the water and 121 against subscribing for the water. As the result of this eleotion the Lehi Metropolitan Water District board was authorized to subscribe for the water. There were 268 votes cast, two ballots spoiled, according to election officials. The opposition balloting at the polls Monday surprised metropolitan water district board members and officials of the Provo River Water Users' Association, who believe nearly near-ly 100 per cent of those opposed to the subscription voted. They also believe that but few in favor of the subscription turned out to vote, as a four to one vote was recorded in favor of creating the metropolitan water district last February. Judges of the election were A. B. Anderson, Arnold C. Brems and Maud Adams. The question voted upon was "Shall the Metropolitan Water District Dis-trict of Lehi enter into a contract with the Provo River Water Users' Association for the purchase of 500 shares of stock in said association and incur a principal indebtedness therefor in the sum of $38,000 and a contingent liability of $13,300?" Each share is equivalent to one acre foot of water in the project. John Whimpey is chairman of the metropolitan water district board with Joseph E. Smith and Herman C. Goates as members. Lehi was the second metropolitan district to approve a subscription, Provo voting September 10 to subscribe sub-scribe for 8000 acre feet of water and a principal indebtedness of $608,000 and a contingent indebtedness indebted-ness of $212,000. The vote in Pro-vo's Pro-vo's election was 1196 in favor and 74 against. ' v In an election Tuesday, American Fork voted unanimously in favor of subscribing for water from the Deer Creek project. The vote was 135 in favcr and 25 against the proposition. propos-ition. Only those persons who voted at the last general election and who had paid a property tax, either real or personal, within the last 12 months immediately preceding the election and who actually live within the limits of Lehi City were allowed to cast their ballot in the election Monday. Mon-day. This election created unusual in- |