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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT 31 American Photo News, Inc. 48. W. D. Beers, who became City Engineer in 1932 under the Louis Marcus- George D. Keyser water administration. the City's requirements at 36,000 acre feet, did so in response to his estimate that its growth and future development might some time in the future demand that quantity. During each of many years prior to 1931, there was actually drawn from the Lake by the Primary ( the City and " Associated Canal Companies") and Secondary rights an amount in excess of the total awarded to the City and the Canal Companies by the " Morse Decree'' and in 1931 an amount in excess of that awarded to them by the " Booth Decree," and during every one of them the rights subsequent to that of the City received a quantity of water greater than that received by it. In each of them except 1931, Utah Copper Company alone received more than three times as much and Utah S. L. Tribune 49. Dr. Ehcood Mead, first commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, who served in that position until his death in 1936. Lake Distributing Company alone a greater amount. Why this was permitted is something diffiicult to understand. When certain interests about 1909 sought to establish a right to the use of the waters of Utah Lake, the City and its associates protested and carried the case to the Supreme Court. They earnestly contended that there was no unappropriated water available and that no other appropriation could be allowed without encroachment upon their rights. But the case went against them and they were bitterly aggrieved. Naturally, but consider the almost incredible fact that that appropriation having been allowed, subsequent appropriations were scarcely noticed, though the City had found it advisable to acquire one- fifth of the capital stock of the |
