Show Fire at Kamas KamasIs Is Controlled KAMASA KAMAS KAMAS- A fire that destroyed an estimated esti estl mated acres of grassland and damaged a a. water tank truck belonging belonging be be- belonging longing to the fire tire department was e extinguished t gu Tu Tuesday The fire threatened the Wa Wa- Fatch atch National Forest east of l Kamas Forest Ranger Larry Colton Colton Col Col- ton said th man 60 crew who battled the flames Monday and had be been n reduced to six and they were still searching for hot spots Friday No estimate of damage was given giVeen giVe en and the cause has not been determined The b blaze I a z e started Monday afternoon at the Kamas dump and spread through tho the orea threatening a fish hatchery and national forest timber Members of the Kamas Volunteer Volun Volun- teer Fire Department whose 2000 gallon tanker was was' damaged will attempt to salvage the equipment Mayor Maor Gordon Taylor said the back tires of the tru truck k were burned and the rear end damaged but the truck came out of the fire area ea on its own power I areas aroas This system will increase the number of ble lands landsI I in the two areas according to Edward District project pro pro- development engineer Seve Seventy thousand acre feet of municipal and industrial water will wiil be brought down from Jordanelle Jordanelle Jor Jor- danelle through Provo River and I Deer Creek Reservoir and picked tip lip at the ilie Murdock Diversion Dam From there it tt will be carried car care I nod ried by Provo canal to the Point of ot the tho Mountain where a conveyance con con- system will bring it down into the valley vaney Economy Boosted thousand acre feet of ot municipal and industrial I water will be available from the tho Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project according to Mr Neeley This phase of the project will snake make new now Jobs add million to personal income and 65 million added to i I I tax revenue This acre feet I of water would Just about handle handleI I water needs of the expected increase in in- crease crease in population of about I new nev people to the Wasatch Was Was- atc atch Front by 1980 he said Elmer Boyle staff live tivo of Uinta Ashley and Wasatch Was Was- atch nIck National Forest Foreston on the Cantral Central Cen Can Utah Conservancy Water I Board explained the part the re re- and lakes would play Inthis in inthis inthis I this project Dams will be reconstructed recon recon- on the bulk of the lakes for permanent storage A few of these continue to serve Berve some of the irrigation needs of the people in the Francis area But Dut the main objective of these lakes will be for recreational purposes Mr Boyle said He pointed to Trial Lake and i the low drawing of water here Trial lake with stabilized water has the same potential of I value as as Mirror Lake Fed 1 I I eral oral money will win be used to eo no into i J I I I the area and and develop t h the road d system making the lakes more I for recreation Mr Boyle said I I I Kamas Hosts I John Lambert president of the I Little Deer Creek Irrigation I Company said negotiations are I underway that the company will either rebuild Little Deer Creek Dam or put their filings into the Central 1 Utah Water Mr Lambert was in charge ot 01 I the tour of the Summit area involved in in- I I In the pro project The group J I i t tO toured red the Jordanelle Reservoir I site tHe rite flaga flagG had previously been i I posted outlining the area Clyde Ritchie chairman of the I Wasatch Water Board was wae In charge of the tour into that coun ty The went to the top ot otI Memorial Hill in Midway where I they could view v the Heber Valley VaHey following the course of Provo fly fly- jer er They went on to Deer Creek i Reservoir then back to Heber where they had lunch 1 Kamas State Bank and the theof Town of Kamas Kanian sponsored the breakfast for the group Tom McNeil secretary and dl dl- I rector of the South Kamas Karnas I tion Company since 1906 was in I attendance Mr McNeil helped build Little Deer Creek Reser v voir lr and was the one who covered the creek I |