Show 5 RECLAMATION NEAR OGDEN At ALt last the patience of S Senator Smoot has baa come to an end lIe He lies bs been bean striving for years to get work started on the Provo Weber Weber Irrigation lion tion ion project without success Each roe lime that he has urged action lie be behas has been met with the statement that further Investigation was necessary essary roary by the reclamation service he lie served notice on the in- in In Interior tenor department that excuses must cease as he lie Is determined to have something done without fur further t thor ther ber delay dclay lb Ho He has requested a a fa fa a- a report before the next meeting of ot congress Senator Smoot has been talking pl plainly to Secretary Work He told the of the Interior there is ample engineer data In the files lIIS or of the reclamation service to justi justi- justify justify fy adoption of tho the Provo Weber project even without waiting for tor forthe the joint report based on survey surreys made last summer He Bo also alBo told the secretary that Utah in the past has haa beta n most moet unfairly dealt with in tho apportionment of ot reclamation reclamation tion funds having had bad to date only for tor a single project the valley now completed against some somo spent In Idaho This led Senator Smoot to warn wara Assistant Secretary Davis former governor of the Gem state that Utah is 18 no longer going to submit to such Buch treatment as It has in the tho past while the cream ot of the reclamation fund Is la dumped in ID Idaho That Thal rha condition oD ot of things be he said Bald Is at nt an Sn end edd and now Insist upon getting that which is 11 rightfully hers bers Senator S Smoots Smoot's determination to exact for tor Utah the states state's share of the reclamation funds will be ac an accepted as aa good news by the people of f Utah For ur or years tho the Prove Prove- Provo project has baa been awaiting definite v ord from Washington and wing followIng news that the head of the senate committee on finance has baa js- js Is Issued sued a mandate results may be ba ex expected Thel e is no reclamation area in Idaho where all the he conditions for I a quick return retain are to be found as ason ason on the Weber Provo Proy We er project Ogden would be greatly benefited d db b by tho the Impounding of ot the tIle flood floodwaters d aters of ot tho the Weber river and reclaiming of ot the bench lands near Dear Ogden and south Into Davis navis c along the tha sand find ridge and Ogden Ogden congratulates Senator Smoot on lg served seed notice that the mak task makIng making ing lag possible of ot the Is no longer to be delayed by bT evasive an- an an avers ot of the Uie reclamation service r |