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Show "1 - Capariiaent of -A-atico in ycur behalf. That injunction issued on -Aily 12, 191G, at a time of serious shortage of water. •. , . iisticc of ita issu&nco was served immediately upon tho offi- Injunc oion u i • Disooeyed. oial3 ^ the privately owned irrigation companies and upon tha. individual water users nssaod in the petition; yet it was fully ten days before tho slightest attention was paid to that injunction. In tho meantime, a meeting of water users was held in the town of Roosevelt to determine, with all solemnity, whether they should obey the injunction of tho snited States Court- It actually was not obeyed until Or* Joseph ii. Bryant, Engineer in charge of tho Uinta-.- Irrigation Project, ^hrof.tened to institute proceedings against the water ccraroany officios, ar.d their attorneys, fpr contempt of court. .'.'ithin half an hour after Or- Bryant had declared his intention of callin-ths maztcr to the attention of tho United .Oiatea Court, tho unwarranted uso of tho Indian wat'tr supply csasod. Tho case i3 yet in its preliminary stagao, but It ia erroectsd that a-final ^termination of it say bo reached in the very near future. In tho meantime., tha distribution of Court i'.ater tho wutsr has been placed by tho Court undor tho direction of Con-jnissionei tfator Commissioner who Is an officer of the Court. Ke is en a the ground continuously and news to it that thero are no violations of the law or the Court'3 order in rsspact to the use of the water. 3 |
