Show Or Of interest to Basin people willbe will willbe willbe be the announcement that George M. M Bacon State Engineer has set his on the proposed Moon Lake Irrigation project and set a request to the United States Reclamation Reclamation Reclamation Rec Rec- bureau in Washington requesting that appropriations for construction be made at the next session of congress The Utah water storage commission commission commission com com- mission of which Mr Bacon is secretary met with a delegation from the Basin last week H. H L. L Allred president of the Dry Gulch Irrigation company and Ray E E. E Dillman attorney for the com- com panl headed the committee Subscribers in the Lake Lahe Fork and Uintah river section have voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- agreed to assume per acre foot assessment burden it is said At this rate it is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that the reclamation fund would be re in forty years The Moon Lake Lale reservoir would afford storage for over acre i feet of water Pledges from irrigation irrigation I gation companies were presented which listed the number of acre feet desired to be supplied with water as follows Dry Gulch 15 OCO Lake Fork ForIe 1700 Lake Fork Western Vestern 1500 Purdy Ditch ditch Farmers Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation gation 2000 On the Uintah side the the following were listed Dry Gulch Cedar View 1000 T. T N. N Todd 1000 To carry water from the Lake Fork Forc watershed to the Uintah river river river riv riv- er side would require a canal 13 miles long That t this canal be made a part of the federal project was requested A letter from R. R F. F Walters Valters chief engineer for the federal bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau was was read strongly protesting protesting protesting protest protest- ing against federal construction I of the can cana Cana a aThe The letter maintained maintain maintain- ed that the world work could be done to greater advantage and more cheaply by home farmers However the commission approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved the petition of the Basin and instructed the Moon Lak Laker Lake delegation including the canal committee to make representatives to Denver and nd Washington offices of the bureau I |