Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-12
BRIGHAM CITY AND
SUGAR COMPANY.
Inducements Offered for the Construction
Of the East Branch of the Bear
River Canal.

have a certain amount Of guarantee In
order 10 Justify II In making the pre-
| llminary surveys, etc. but II lo,VOO
acres were subscribed for at once II
might make a difference.
Q.--Must the land be specified upon
which water Is to be used, and VIII IL
be possible TO transfer such water
rights 20 others TO be used upon other
land. and. In case water Is subscribed
for 20 iirlgate land which should prove
to be yalueless because of alkah, TOR
instance, could II then be transferred
to other land?
Ans.--Water rights would be nom
transferable and must specify Just
what land the water is to be used upon,
otherwise It would cause endless con-
fusion But, In the latter case, where
land should prove TO be worthless, the
company would be willing and even
anxious to have same transferred 10
good land
Q.-Water rights were spoken OF as
being sold by the acre. who shall judge
as TO the amount necessary for an acre
Answered by Mr. Evans, the local
manager, who thought the company
should be the judge OF that. one cuDlc
foot per second flow would be furnished
for each so acres and at that proper
tlonate rate for any number OF acres
but arrangements could be made with
the water-master or with the company
as 10 time water Is used. II could be
used for a shorter length OF time ana
have a larger stream.
The question was asked, How SHAH
man who has done work on the canal
and received in payment, water rights
for certain number Of acres, be able
to dispose of water rights II the same
be not transferable? To which Mr.. Cut
Ter answered that all work done for the
Utah Sugar company would be paid
for in cash, every dollar Of 1t. Cap
pause)
II was decided to make preliminary
canvass among the people present az
the meeting, as to how much they
would subscribe for, beginning with
Collingston precinct and coming on
down In their order to Willard pre-
cinct The result was that amounts
aggregating about 1900 acres were
promised in the meeting. Mr.. Cutler
expressed himself as being convinced
that the people were anxious enough
for the water TO Justify them In max
ing estimates upon the cost OF con-
struction and in about thirty days they
would be ready to make a decided pro
position, provided the people were
ready by that time TO say Just what
they would do
A committee was appointed to make
a canvass among the farmers, consist
ing OF the following representative citi-
zens: Charles Kelly, chairman; j. ID.
Cali J. Y Rich, Nels Jensen, Charles
w. Knudsen, f. j. Holton, ~ c. Jen-
sen and James Knudson from Brigham
City. From Bear River precinct Oluf
Jensen. Calls Fort. Geo May. Honey
vile. Israel Hunsaker. Colllnston, led
Earl. Three Mile, j. u. Peters. Willard.
s. n. Cook. Deweyville. b. s. Burbanks.
Corinne William House.
The committee was urged TO make all
possible haste in completing the can
vass.
The question was asked; is II not
true that there is a shortage Of water
at the present time on the west side
Of the river and. could the company
furnish the necessary amount OF water
out OF what was left In Bear river at
the lowest season. TO lrrigate what
land was proposed on this side? The
answer was that the company had no
knowledge Of any shortage Of water
on the other side and II anyone was
short no doubt II was among neigh
bors who purloined each others water.
Mr.. Cutler said that perhaps shortage
was experienced by people who had
100 acres of land and only 10 acres OF
water and tried to irrigate the whole
with that amount. 1t was stated that
at the lowest season last year there was
twice as much water running over the
dam in Bear River Canyon as was USED
in the canal on the west side. and
about $1,000 acres was being irrigated
there. The meeting then adjourned
With music from the band