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Show BIG SGHEIE FOB UTAH Engineer. Doremus Bound for Washington. HAS GREAT IRRIGATION PLANS They Take In tho Entiro State of Utah. Will Be Laid Before the Department, and Urged by the Arid Land Fund Commission. State Engineer A. F. Doremus leaves today for Washington to lay before the Interior department a comprehensive scheme for increasing the water supply of practically the entire Slate of Utah, where farming by irrigation is possible or practicable. The State Arid Reclamation Recla-mation Fund commission, of which the State Engineer- is chairman, has been working on this scheme for nearly a year past, and the members believe that they now have It in such form that it will appeal to the department as one capable of being worked out effectively. ef-fectively. The scheme has nothing to do with the Utah lake project and will not Interfere with it In any way. If carried out It may strengthen the latter lat-ter proposition, but It cannot. hinder It, according to the claims of Prof. Doremus. Dore-mus. The members of the commission are not yet ready to make public the details de-tails of thejr plans which contemplate such far-reaching results. Not even In a general way would Prof. -Doremus allude al-lude to these plans when questioned concerning them yesterday. "We consider," said he. "that we should leave It to the department to give out the details of the scheme when it is ready to take them up, in the event that It decides to take them up. It will be the department's scheme, not ours. We will make the suggestions only. I will say that we have been working on the matter for some time, and we believe be-lieve we have something to present which is practical and which will be to the Slate of Utah what the Utah lake project will be to the Salt Lake valley. But It should be understood that one will not Interfere in the least with the other." It was intended to lay the greater scheme before Prof. Newell when he was here, but the time of his visit was so short that It could not be done. Then the commission decided that its chairman should proceed at once to Washington to treat with the department. depart-ment. Prof. Doremus expect9 to join Mr. Newell at Cheyenne and make the remainder of the trip to the Nation's capital In his company. |