The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-26
STATE NEWS.
IRRIGATION AT LEHI.
Water Will Be Supplied From Utah
Lake by Pumping.

Lehi. Sept. 95.-Practieally all of the
stockholders of the Lehi Irrigation COM
pany held a meeting in the old tabernacle
Saturday evening and by an almost I'M
animous vote instructed the board of di-
rectors TO proceed at once 10 perfect plans
for the installation of d pumping plant in
Utah lake TO supply water for irrigation
purposes for the farms south and west
of Lehi.
A short time ago the Lehi Commercial
club water committee filed on forty sec
ond feet of the waters of Utah lake and
then secured estimates for a pumping
plant and pipe line two miles in length.
The committee then called all the faI*n-
ers together and submitted their plans
and estimates, and offered to transfer
their filing rights to the irrigation COM
pany Many leading farmers made
speeches faVOring the water scheme and
when the vote was taken on accepting
the Commercial club programme there
was but one dissenting vote.
fhe engineers estimates are that the
plant, which will be of about 325 horse
power and the two miles of wooden pipe
line thirty inches in diameter would cost
So, 600 for twenty second feet of water
or $4,000 for thirty second feet, the end
of the pipe line being about sixty feet
above the level of the lake.
The articles of Incorporation of the IL
rigatiOn company will have to be amended
before the project can be carried out ana
the vote on this, While 1t Will not De
favor of increased power for the directors.
If the articles are so amended all the
water now used IN the lower fields VIII
be transferred to the upper lands. Some
feared law suits from the Salt Lake coun-
" farmers, but II was pointed out Ihat
the engineers in the government recla-
nation service, after making careful
measurements of the lake for the past
four years, decided that it was capable
of supplying 200 second feet OF Whlch
amount but $50 second feet are now being
used and the state engineer and other
competent authorities assured the Lem
people that their appropriation could not
be successfully contested.
The board of directors or the irrigation
company. assisted by the Commercial
club committee Will meet TINS week anu
proceed to carry out the wishes or the
farmers as expressed at the Saturudy
night meeting.
Judge Booth will come over to Lehi to
morrow and hold a session or JuVeiIic
court y couple of boys, charged Win
shooting COW, holding up ana roppihs a
boy. smashing church furniture anu
stealing buggy whips and lap ropes, anu
terroriZing the people in the northern
part of the city in divers other ways,
will be examined as to their elSlollty IoI
entrance to the reform school
The political situation in Lehl Is pc
ginning to show signs of life. Ihe Ike
publican city committee met Ie" udS0
ago and after recommending TWO cdndi-
dates Tor registration OlliCSlS " - =.
cancies in the First and Third districts,
il was decided TO hold Republican mass
convention about the middle of October
and nominate a city ticket. The names
of j. III. Gardner, Thomas Webb and Johll
Y. Smith are faVorably mentioned loI
mavor and the names of ], y. Butt,
George Evans and James Taylor for city
marshal The names of Joseph W D.;
Coates. A ]. Evans and Andrew FJeId
are mentioned as possible candidates 10, ioI
MAYER on the Democratic ticket Inc
talk which was INDUCED in some time aS1
favoring a citizens ticket has evidently
died out