The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-06
CHAMBERS Says He
WILL ENFORCE LAW
State Fish and Game Commits
siOner to See That Screens
Are Maintained.
THIS ACTION IS TAKEN
TO PROTECT THE FISH
Number of Irrigation Compa-
nies Said to Be Violating
the Law.

State Fish and Game Commissioner
Fred ". Chambers has announced his
intention of enforcing section 10 of the
revised statutes, requiring canal and
irrigation companies taking water from
streams. lakes or reservoirs for power
plant or waterworks purposes to first
furnish and maintain suitable screens
or other devices to prevent fish from
entering the power plant, mill race or
other waterworks system and being de"
stroyed.
1t has recently come TO Mr.. Cham
bers s notice that several canal and ir-
ngation companies, especially In Cache
county, are taking water from noun
tain streams without providing screens.
j. \. Thatcher. president of the Cache
County Fish and Game Protective as"
sociation, Wednesday notified Mr..
Chambers that canal and irrigation
companies there have been taking
water from streams without furnishing
screens, and that he and some of the
other members of the association had
gone out and saved In the neighbor'
hood of 1900 trout from destruction:
Mr.. Thatcher further declares IN his
communication to Mr.. Chambers that
canal and irrigation companies thus
guilty of destroying fish ought to be
made to pay the full market value OF
the fish so destroyed. Canal and irri-
CATION companies in and around Hyrum
are also charged with similarly violat-
ing the law >,
1.-The law on this subject is plain, y
said Mr.. Chambers, speaking of the
matter Wednesday afternoon, "and |
propose to see that it is enforced 1t
is time that companies or private per
sons violating this law come to under
stand that the law was not made 10
violate at their pleasure.
Mr.. Chambers also called attention
to sections and 10 relating to the
drainage of canals and bitches and mill
races and the penalty, which reads as
follows:
Wording OF Sections.
Section s. All persons, corporations, or
companies owning; or controlling irriga-
ting canals. dltches. or millraces for
irrigation, or operating mill or power
plants of any kind. before draining any
such canal. ditch. or millrace for any
game warden at least i've days prior to
such DRAWINGS. Upon failure TO comply
with the provisions OF this section II shall
be deemed a misdemeanor and punishable
by fine of not less than S25.
Section 10. Screen Penalty. II shall
be unlawful for any person or persons.
corporation OF company, 10 take any wa
ter from state streams, lakes or reser-
voirs for power plant purposes or water
works without first furnishing and main.
tain!ng suitable screens or other devices
10 prevent fish from entering said power
nlant milrace or waterworkS system,
said screens or other devices 10 be built
and maintained, when required, under the
direction of the state commissioner or his
deputy and at the expense OF the said
owner OF OPERATOR provided. that said
screen shall not Interfere with the op-
Grafton OF any power plant by materially
nbstructinF the flow Of water used for
power purposes. And IL shall be mis-
delneanor punisha BILE by a fine OF $40 per
day for each day after notice has been
given 20 said owner or owners OF said
power plant or waterworks sys.-
ten. 10 take effect ten days from date Of
service OF notice.