The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-10
WILL FILE A SUIT.
NORTH POINT IRRIGATION co. SAYS
1T IS TIRED OF WAITING.
1t Makes Il Demand Upon the City
Council and the County Court
Other Canal Companies Are Also
Interested and hIll Have to
Come to Time.

Having arrived at a point where pa
tience ceased to be a virtue, the efforts
of the corporation to secure action on the
part OF either the city or the county, in
the way of Keller asked, the North Point
Irrigation company yesterday took the
first step in what will no doubt prove TO
be an expensive suit against the city
ana county and the South Jordan and
North Jordan Canal companies.
Although this case has been stated in
The Herald several times, the assertions
made fully covering all the points in
VOWED. the appended document will con-
vey clear idea to those who have not
made themselves familiar with all the
difficulties encountered by the North
Point people in securing their rights as
demanded by them several times both
from the selectmen and the city council
Attorney Taylor yesterday served ali
the parties to the transaction and the re
suit will be that at this evenings session
of the city council, the irrigation commit
tee will doubtless get something of a
movement upon itself While the Selectmen
VIII doubtless stop the piling UP of mile
age and do little think work.
The demand made is couched in the fol-
lowing language:
To the County of Salt Lake, Utah; the
South Jordan Canal company, the Utah
and Salt Lake Canal company and the
North Jordan Canal company:
You and each of You are hereby noti-
fed that the North Point Consolidated
irrigation company, a corporation organ
1zed under the laws of the territory of
Utah, owns an extensive system of irri-
eating bitches and water rights, which
bitches are located in said Salt Lake
county. west of the river Jordan, in the
Salt Lake valley AMI to the west and
south of the city OF Salt Lake The said
water right comes from the Jordan river
and the waters from said river are con-
Jordan and Salt Lake surplus water ca
ma and through what is known as
Whites lake, into the system of irrigation
bitches of the said North Point CONSOLE
dated Irrigation company, and said conf
pany has used the said water right and
the waters so received into and conducted
through its system of bitches since about
the year 1856.
You have constructed and are now
maintaining a system of drainage bitches
in said county Of Salt Lake ard lying to
the south and west of the irrigation sys-
tenn of said North Point Consolidated
Irrigation comnany'S bitches, said system
of drainage bitches so constructed and
maintained by you extending from burst
lake into Porter'S lake, thence into Ken
bricks lake, thence into Decker's lake
and thence into Whites lake, the waters
from said drainage bitches thus going oi-
rectly into the irrigation system of the
said North Point Consolidated Irriga ton
company. The said drainage bitches drain
a considerable portion of alkali lands and
the waters discharged through said
drainage bitches into said Whites lake
and thence into the irrigation system of
the said North Point Consolidated Irri-
cation company are impregnated with
alkali and other salts to such an extent
as to render all the waters in the irriga-
ton system of the said NTfth Point Con-
solidated Irrigation company wholly unfit
for use. either for culinary, household or
irrigation purposes. and render the sys-
tenn of irrigation bitches and water rights
of the said North Point Consolidated IT.
rieation company entirely valuelesS. That
the section of country drained by such
drainage bitches is not tributary TO said
Whites lake, nor would the drainage
from said tract of country naturally come
into said Whites Jake or into the jrriga-
ton system of said North Point Consoli-
dated Irrigation company but is conduct
ed there by artificial channels so con-
structed and maintained by YOU. and
these artificial channels and bitches by
reason of the quality of the water car
ried through them have become, and are
nuisance.
The North Point Consolidated Irrigation
company therefore requests and demands
of you that YOU abate the said nuisance
BY closing up the said drainage ditch
running from Decker's lake into Whites
lake. and in case of your failure to do so
within a. reasonable time from the date
of service of this notice upon you, the
said North Point Consolidated Irrigation
company will commence suit against yo'l
TO enioin the said nuisance and compel
ycu to abate the same.