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Show WATERUSERSJIERE MUST ACT Rights In tho Gooseberry Valley Arc Oreatly Endangered. C J Finch, chief deputy stale engineer, en-gineer, met with tho board of directors direc-tors nnd some of the Inrgcr stockholders stock-holders of Carlton Water, Land nnd Power company at Pnco last Wednesday Wednes-day evening. During tho courso of n brief talk on local water conditions he explained to thine in the meeting that if thov would protect their water rights as they now exist they had best got busy and proceed with the rebuilding re-building of tho Mammoth reservoir tlnm or arrange for tho storing of present rights in the Gooseberry Volley Vol-ley Others are after theso and If the ore not protected ns they should be under the irrigation laws of tho state are liable to bo lost. Later it was decided by those present to invito nil the members of the state land board here nnd see what steps mny bo taken to protect thcstnte, which has n big loan on the proposition, nnd nlso tho stockholders in tho company. The invitation to tho state officials went forward yesterday through Carl It. Mnrcuscn, tho secretary of tho eompniiv. A reply is expected from thorn within n day or so. |