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Show IngiNeers Will go on field service Government Reclamation. Work Will Be Under Professor G. ii. Swcndsen. 1 AC6RPS of engineers, which will iil-cludp iil-cludp ten men and a, complete outllt fdf held seVvlcc, will bo dispatched on Saturday by Prb'f. Gebrgft L. Swendscri) engineer in charge bt the Gdi'- r crnment reclamation service In Utafi, tdr tho Strawberry River valley . This corps will lio engaged att summer on tho preliminary pre-liminary work of Utah's great Irrigation ' project, with particular reference to tile problem of dlvorllng the headwaters' of j the Duchesne river to tho Utah and Salt Lake valleys,. Prof. .Swendson expects to have .within a. month, however, information informa-tion that will be of ureal valdo to. the G'ovcrnment In formulating Its. plans ,fpr actlvo operations. Tlie Utah lako , project, which is lo bo handled in the future as a part of tho main project Id. .far nough along so that construction .vofck may be proceeded with as Boon .as tho, preliminary organization of tho water-usors Is effected. No diftlqulty In, bringing about the preliminary pre-liminary organl7Atloa in a comparatlyfely bhort tlmo is anticipated. Tho. basis, upOp which the primary rights of the, old .canal .companies ara to be. accounted, Corr has already been settled, .and -the enlargement of, ,thfe, project, by "combining It with the geAter scheme,, can only lricreaso the aq-vanlagcs aq-vanlagcs to accrud tp.thpsb Svho wetb lh-pludcu lh-pludcu .it) .tho, first project, pho of the most Important ojC .yiese. ddvantage' wll L bo, that In th,c .ovent, of a shprtagc of H jvatei; on ona side qf tho rariga and a su'r- H pljiRago OH the other,., which Is. not at all I Unlk'ely., to bnpPQh. thc.ov.crUppJy can he lilrn'cd Into the canali wher,ij it is .needed, As a matter of Xa,c.t, . At Is urged there can bo no possible reason for any land-cwner land-cwner within, the, possible, radlub of the big project's operations hesitating to enter en-ter the preliminary bncanlzatlon of water-Users. water-Users. Should he havo any. water rlghl3 at the present time. he. wlll.recelvo credit fdt .theni;, Jiic water will bia secured by the Government at actual cost, by doing ihlhftS . ipbh, a. much larger, scale than coUly possibly be dbne, by any prlyate I cdncern, Apl JC.Ior, any, rertsan an Abund- 1 nnce of water should not be provided any 1 signer of .the agreement with tho Govern- t mont, he would havb nothing to pay. The j chances are all taker! by the Goyernmeht, |