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Show UTAH LAKE PROJECT FAVORED. The Irrigation convention here jester-da) jester-da) unanimously agreed to puh the Utnh like resrvolr project as the one that Utah will ask lhe Government to take hold of under th new Irrigation law This was unquestlonabl) it wise and right thing to do First, it will serve the greatest number of people, second It Is a proposition that Involves no unecrtalnt) the whole matter Is one the conditions of which nre known, and it Is merel) an engineering question ques-tion to handle Ihe water, both for storage stor-age and deliver) purposes Mr. Dore-mus Dore-mus contributed very materially to aiding aid-ing the convention to retch the very proper conclusion It did reich by his detailed estimates, which are well made and BubHantlited, and which Impressed Im-pressed thief Newell favorabl) The amount called for b those estlmites Is large, but It cun he had and when the work Is completed, we shall have a reservoir res-ervoir and distributing system In L'luh nnd Salt Lake enmities that will furnish fur-nish a moJel for the world na well ns being of untold benefit to the firmers nt both v allele Another ex-ellcnt feature of the agreement Is Ihe sensible course of the water companies Interested The) will agree, and turn the whole miller over I to the Clov eminent thus getting manl-I manl-I fold advantages over the cramped and ver) poor water suppl) now available As we understand It the Idea Is to assure as-sure a full supply of water to nil the land under tilluse and lhn with the surplus, allow of the opening of new farms, the tillers of which cm come In on the benefits on the same terms ns Ihe original npproprlators of the lion in the Jordan It will be altogether ,a happy e hinge all around, ind lhe ' leoplc are to be congratulated on their I compliance with the reasonable require, ments of the Government. And above nil arc they to be congratulated on finding In charge for lhe Government, u man so thoroughly Informed on the whole matter and so well disposed as Chief Newell who so warmly and ably co-operated with the Irrigators In their convention |