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Show RECLAMATION PROJECT MAY BE RELAYED R. D. Wadley Returns From Washington, D. C, in Interest Inter-est Utah Lake Project. It. D. Wadley, manager of the Utah County Farm Bureau federation, federa-tion, who went to Washington, D. C.f as a representative of the Provo River Waterusers association associa-tion in the interest of Utah lake reclamation project, returned to his home in Pleasant Grove Friday. While nothing definite has been promised regarding the proposed Utah county project, the sentiment' among the Utah delegation in Wash-. ington is that the project will be financed by the government. Whether the project will be reached reach-ed this year or not, is not certain at this time as many probes and in- vestigations that are being conducted conduct-ed in "Washington is retarding the regulnr work of the lawmakers. "Senator King is of the opinion that the project will be approved by Congress, but does not believe that the matter will be reached this year" said Mr. Wadley, "The senator pointed out that generally all of the appropriations are made sometime during February. This year the investigations in-vestigations into half a dozen or more matters has delayed the entire en-tire program and nothing much has been accomplished. "He also said that most of the senators and representatives are anxious to get back home and that for that reason it is improbable that the matter of reclamation will come up at this time." Mr. Wadley said that the factfinding fact-finding commission which recently visited Utah seems to be in favor of the proposed Utah lake propect and that all the necessary facts and points concerning the project are in the hands of the commission and the reclamation service. '"The thing that worries me more than anything else in this project is whether or not the people will be in readiness to accept when the opportunity op-portunity comes," said Mr. Wadley. "From the looks of things some of the farmers in various parts of the county act as though they dont want the reclamation. They are conducting conduct-ing themselves in such a manner that if thy persist there never will be any re&lamation in Utah county. "Some fallows who have always been irrigating their farms and lands by the waters from certain streams and ditches, seem to act as though no other water from any other source would be of the same value on their land. "This project will never be successful suc-cessful and, I fear, will never be put over, unless there is an exchange ex-change of water for the best interests, inter-ests, not of any one or two individuals, individ-uals, but for the entire county. "If the farmers realize the value to them in dollars and cents the reclamation project will be, there would not be one of them to stand in the way of its progress." While in Washington, Mr. Wadley also saw Karl Keller and Lee R. Tavlor, of Payson, who were there in the interest of the Strawberry Waterusers association. They were completing arrangements for turning turn-ing over the project to the water-users. |