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Show 114 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT The law passed by the Legislature in 1935 left it open to the governing bodies of the municipalities of the State to propose a Metropolitan Water District which would include the area of two or more of them or which would include the area of one only. It was proposed to the electors of this city that the district to be authorized by them should be one the primary interest of which would be confined to the area of Salt Lake City and so, as now constituted, it is. Whether the field of that interest ought to be enlarged is a question which we shall touch upon hereafter. ( See page 117.) its obligations, but the electors themselves. As the Supreme Court expressed it, the Legislature " has permitted the people of the various cities and towns which are to be included in the territorial limits of the entity to set up such entity which, when, and if they do, may exercise certain powers. If the people choose not to set it up, no powers come into being. The people themselves in the last analysis' have control of the situation." City and District Have Common Interest District Created and Powers Given by Electors of City It might be well to point out here that though the proposal to create the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City was submitted to the electors by the governing body of the Municipal Corporation it was not that governing body which created it and thus vested it with its pow- ers and imposed But whether a metropolitan water district includes the area of one municipality or of several, there exists certain relationships between it and the governing bodies of the one or more of them- relationships some of which are imposed by law and some of which are imposed by common sense, good judgment, and by the common interest in the general welfare of the people of Salt Lake Citv. 139. Deer Creek dam, complete except for the highway. This view along the top of the dam gives an excellent idea of the size of rock used for rip- rap. Hampton C. Godbe * mz /: - 3£: 4v m^ mm w JMI:. ... M mm . * r, •• at |