The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-02-03
FILING
IN WATER CLAIM
UTAH IRRIGATION PROJECT WILL
BE ASSISTED TO COMPLETION
is LATEST INFORMATION
Salt Lake Company Proposes Big
System to lrrieats 1o4,s2 Acres
In Upper Sanpete
County

Salt Lake-That tract of ground
agrregatlng 104,320 acres may be irri-
gated, application was made to the
state engineer. Wednesday by c. A.
Gillette, who represents the Halloran-
Judge company, of Salt Lake, TO divert
215,00O acre feet of water from Price
river, Huntington creek and Cotton
wood creek in Carbon and Emery coun-
ties. The diverting works will be an
earth and concrete dam and canal,
the later being eighty miles in length,
forty feet wide at the top, twenty five
at the bottom and a depth of water OF
! five feet
The application is in reality re-
filing on the waters of the streams
over which there has been a controv-
esy between the applicants and the
Price River irrigation district. 1t
is proposed to take the water from
Cottonwood creek to an amount Of
100000 acre feet and from Huntington
creek 10000 acre feet.
The waters so diverted are to be
stored wherever available throughout
the year and released from the reser-
voirs as required The canal will
carry the water down Price canyon
to Cotton, thence to Soldier Summit,
where it VII commingle with the wa
tiers of Soldier Fork creek, then into
a canal near Tucker, thence TO Thistle
and Indianola to the head of the San
pete valley. At this point the waters
will branch, one canal carrying the wa
ter along the east side of the Sanpete
valley, the other by the way of Foun-
tain Green to Salt Creek canyon, where
the water will commingle with Salt
creek and thence conveyed to the lands
adjacent to Nephi and Levan.
Last week there was conference
between Governor Charles r. Mabey
State Engineer r. e. Caldwell w. d.
Candand of Sanpete county, William
Bailey from Juab county and two rep |
OF the Halloran-Judge |
company, Wesley e. King and c. A. |
Gillette, Which had already made !
filings on the waters similar to the |
filings of Wednesday, and Carl X. Mar
cusen, who represented the Price river
irrigation district regarding the plans
being promoted by the company. No
conclusion was reached On that Mr..
had not the proper author
ity to act for the Price irrigation
district
"The idea of the Halloran-Judge or
gan.zation is that there shall be Gre
dated three irrigation districts-Price
river, Sanpete and Juab-and that
these districts shall become purchas-
ers of water to be impounded by res
arvoirs to be built and owned by the
Halloran-Judge corporation" it is
stated. "A pooling of water from the
from Fish creek and from
and Cottonwood creeks
,ver in Emery county is advocated and
IN effort is made to get Price river
irrigation district to see it advantage
n exchanging waters from these other
reelSs. The state engineer has an
bounced his intenetion to reject the
lain. This action, 1t is said, would
,reciptate a fight through the courts
0 establish the contention that in the
ecent notices for withdrawal of Price
liver water from filing there was
auty and inadequate descriptions
rhich would bar the state engineer
rom rejecting the application on the
that these particular waters ;,
-ere withdrawn. {
The state engineer required that the ii
pplication heretofore filed be cor h
ected so as to eliminate Price river
S a source of supply. This the Hal
,ran-Judge people declined to do, and
allowed their application =
, lapse, return II corrected In accord !,
nee with the provisions of section AZ ),
Z the water rights law. and II has r
cen acceptd and relied as thus cor =
tied. given a new number and pri-
+ty as to date of its filing under the =,
rovis'ons of section 45 Of the water
ghts law by the state engineers or
&c.
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