| Show ANSWER FILED IN BIG SUIT salina people are up in arms allege that sigurd people have befouled the waters of canal and reservoir A few weeks since a suit nv was as filed in the district court entitled the state of utah ex rel board ol 01 0 health s the ford Reci voir company toc n damn the vermilion reservoir as a menica to the health of the people of siguid lijoi breeden Br attorney general A 0 the state was here in and filed the suit the reservoir com pann s officers hid had a 1 copy of the complaint served upon them and the immediately became bu 3 v in looking after their sidi of the case the firm of thurman wed wedgewood sewood denood and irvine has been engaged to defend the action and they the in turn have secured haves and bates to attend to the minor details of the case th answer anser to the complaint has been filed with the clerk of the court here and now the ca case cac c is faily fai ly launched which N will ill end in a decision either to condemn the reservoir oi 01 the people of sigurd will ax ill have to seek otier relief from the sickness which they allege is caused from the reservoir the answer anser is a compete benial of the allegations of the complaint as to the reservoir being th cause of dis case ani an 1 charges thit that the sigurd people have been drinking N water ater which is befouled hi their own domestic animals it recites the fact that the defendant company has been using tie the water from sevier river ner for 3 sears cars for irrigation purposes es but that for a few veara ear prior to 1902 there hid bid been barel sufficient water nater in the river to serve the lands which wre irrigated bv thed the d fending f end int in the 3 ear 1901 the defendant joined with v ith the willow bend irrigation company and decided to construct the dam near vern vermilion ilion for the purpose of stonna water vater that otherwise e went nent to waste during the winter season the cost of this dam was about 30 and it was nas completed in 1903 since thit that time the water has flowed into the reservoir an aal out again and that it is lust as fich and pure a before the construction of the dam and that it does not become stagnant agnant tt at any time the answer anger denies that b reason of the dam that there has been deposited adv filth dead animals or de ca caved ed vegetation and if uch is found in the reservoir it is placed there by persons avei hm the defend defendant tnt has no control As a further defense it is alleged that th p ople opla of sigurd obtain their water ater for culinary pur purposes poes from a canil canal which flows above ve tie ti e to n and thit that along the banks of this canal cattle sheep horses and hobb are fed and watered and the water nater in the cinal is befouled bv animals also it is alleged that the banks of the reservoir are used as a 1 I feeding fee diner ground for all kinds of domestic animals and th s against the protest of the defend int the anav answer er then allebes thit that the disease cau ea at SI silra ard can be obviated without interfering with nith the reservoir thit salina ajtora and redmond ha aae e ten tirres more people vitally interested in ane continuance of the reserva r than are at sigurd and concludes li by asking that the complaint be dismissed and the defendants cots costs be taxed to the plaintiff the reaper his been charged ba b some who ho are interested in the plaintiffs side of the ca case cae e with anith being prejudiced in favor of the defendants d the his 0 oila IN gj agnen en both bides of the controversy controvert y a aa it has been given to report reporters ra for this piper this paper has no interest other thin to fusee see justice done ind has no opinion in the matter the vil viiga given have been the views of men who are and the pi piper perill will the views of one side db as readily as another as long as the nutter matter his news neb value it will be an unprejudiced ju which x will ill pass on th tb merits of the case and we e are not vitally interested in either cither side |
