Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1909-08-20
Report of
s. Mass Meetings.
Cedar City, August 10. 1909.

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secretary OF the several water meet
ings recently held, ! have been re-
quested 10 submit to your local
readers (in-as. much as they are vitality
concerned In ~ q report of the pro
csrdings at those meetings. In doing
90, shall try TO confne myself rs
closely as possible to the records.
making only such statements or nom
ments as may seem necessary to an
understanding Of the points involved.
In the fret place IL seems necessary
to explain that about two years ago
the various fields aud water corpora.
tious appointed from among them
selves committee whose duty IL
was to devise and recommend some
scheme for incorporating the water
interests CT Cedar. In their delibeIa-
tions this committee conceived the
IDEA that 1t would be coed thing
to include the high waters also which
could hest be handled as n corpora
ticn and decided to advise the uitizen
to form such corporation and use
the high and waste waters In carrying
on farm and live stock business.
The Hon. John s. Woodbury. bad
previously been asked by the com
mittee to apply for 100 second feet
IF water aud hold it Ia trust for the
people, pending moro definite
distribution OF IL. All In reedintEF,
the committee last March called the
citizens together In macs meeting
and submitted unanimous report
recommending that q CORPORATION he
formed to take over This 100 feet CT
high water and acquire lands on which
To use IL Ia carrying cut a farming
end livestock business. This report
was unanimously adopted by the
citizens who at once proceeded to
appoint q committee to draft Articles
of Incorporation aud take the
necessary steps to bring the compsny
into existance. The macs meeting
then adjourned subject to the call
OF the committee on Incorporation.
On the 2nd OF April last. this
committee called the people together
OF Incorporation which were admira'
bly, adapted tn the carrying out OF
the ideas outlined In the frat meet
ing, aud these articles with but slight
alteration, were adopted. The meet.
ing then elected a temporary hoard
of directors and empowered them /,
carry out the intent of the company
The Board took up their labors sn'
pursued them with varied success
until recently when some lttl
friction WIS developed. Some Ian,
owners felt that they were eutitlet
toa portion of the high water ant
thet they ought not to be compeliet
to turn their land into the conn pan,
TO get it; Others challenged entire th
authority of the corporation; aud still
others charged that the trustee M r
Woodbury. was breaking bic trus
and that the directors of the o0mpan,
were diverting the company from 1t
original purposes aud acting in bat
fsit5 generally.
The dispute eliminated in tn
ceiling of tho public meetings heiC
this week at the tabernacle, tn
minutes of which are appended.
Cedar City, Aug. II, 1909.
Minutes of joint meeting OF th
citizens and the directors of tn
Cedar Farm aud Livestock Compan!
held In Tabernacle at 8 p. m. Mayo
John s. Woodbury. presiding.
Joseph 8. Fife. on behalf of tn
citizens, presented a petition to th
Directors of Cedar Farm and Live
stoHk Co., asking that portion c
the water held in trust by John S
Woodbury. be distributed among th
land owners for use on their privat
lands.
Mr.. Wood bury explained tn
position of the Directors of the CON
pany on the matter of dividing th
water and reviewed the history OF tn
movement from it's origin to th
time the company was organized.
Wm. X. Palmer aud Il. Il. Rya
told what movements the compan
has made and the reasons why it ha
made them.
The meeting was thrown open 70
free discussion aud many phases @
the question was discussed.
The hour being late, an adjourn
ment was taken until tomorrow night
w. K PALMER, Sec'y.
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