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Show Appropriation Is Asked For Utah Project One step closer to the consummation consum-mation of the long-looked for Utah lake reclamation project has been taken with the introduction in congress con-gress of a bill by Congressman E. O. Leatherwood calling for an appropriation ap-propriation of $1,500,000 for what is known as the Salt Lake basin project proj-ect The Utah lake project is part of the larger basin project.. Congressman Leatherwood Wednesday Wed-nesday notified State Senator Leroy Dixon, who with Judge James B. Tucker bpent several weeks in Washington in the interest of the project, that the preliminaries for the pvopf-;r4..: reclaim1 'ion 'projVer had been completed and that it is now np to congress. According to Senator Dixon all of the plans as worked out by the Utah congressional delegation in co-operation with himself and Judge Tucker are incorporated in the Leatherwood bill. ; The report of the fact-finding commission, in which the proposed project is approved, has been sent to congress with the approval of President Pres-ident Coolidge. "While it is impossible at this time to say just where the first work on the Salt Lake basin project will be started," said Senator Dixon, "It is my own personal opinion that the section that is first ready and which is the most meritorious will be the beginning point. "A written report of our activities activi-ties while in Washington, will be given the public within the next few days by Judge Tucker and myself. my-self. We have been preparing the report since returning and will be ready to give it out in a day or two. "The introduction of the Leather-wood Leather-wood bill should be hailed with delight de-light by all Utahns. If the bill passes congress, which it undoubtedly undoubted-ly will, it will be of untold good to the entire state and especially to Utati county where we have suffered suf-fered for years from the high waters of Utah lake." According to Washington reports, Congressman Leatherwood is acting in entire harmony with the interior department, and is convinced that good faith and wise policy demand ' that congress in authorizing new projects shall take cognizance of conditions disclosed by the report of the fact-finders and provide on all future work that the interests of the government and of prospective prospec-tive settlers shall alike be guarded against the evils of past reclamation reclama-tion methods. |