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Show NEWTON RESERVOIR PROJECT PUSHED ' The Newton project in Cache county received a, lion's share of i attention during the monitth of' March, by workers under direction direc-tion of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Re-clamation, with 17 of the total of 42 men employed on investigations investi-gations within the state stationed on the Cache project. The information was contained in a bureau report received Wednesday Wed-nesday at the office of State Engineer En-gineer T. H. Humpherys. Fourteen of the 17 men at the Newton project were WPA workers, work-ers, furnished through the state engineer's office in an effort to rush preliminary work of the project prior to actual construction. construc-tion. Articles of incorporation for the new Newton water users association associa-tion have received approval of the water users and the Washington Washing-ton office, the report states, and are ready for filing. Details connected con-nected with securing of transfer of the old water organization's assets to the new association are being worked out by local committees. com-mittees. I. D. Jerman, acting construe tion engineer for the project, was transferred from Idaho to the Cache county project, site to take charge of equipment arriving arriv-ing far the dam. construction job according to the report, Mr. Jerman Jer-man established ofi'iices in Logan last week. |