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Show ! ffTlLiUIjK A. POUTER, who j JCi leaves the government service to assume direction of water distribution of bin projects. dh-r&rm U WILL DIRECT BIG R ECLAMAT I DM WORK Government Engineer to Take Charge of Utah Irrigation Ir-rigation Projects. Klmer A. Portei , dislrici engineer of the water resources branch of the United States geological survey, covering t lie states pi Utah and Nevada, has resigned in Older to accept the position as engineer engi-neer in charge of water distribution for several large irrigation companies on the lower Sevier river. His resignation will take place about March L Mis position here will be temporarily filled by G. Clyde Baldwin, district engineer for the Boise branch. Mr. Porter's new position will put him In entire charge of water distribution between be-tween Redman and Deseret, on the Sevier Se-vier river, and several storage reservoirs, which 5 tore approximately ,0OO,w acre feet of water. 1 1 is believed by M r. Port er t hat It will only be a matter of time until the systematic utilizing of water will be used by all projects on such rivers as the Provo. Logan. Bear, Beaver and Duchesne, Du-chesne, in I " ta h. and the Truckee. Carson. Car-son. Walker. Humboldt' and iluddy rivers, in Nevada. Mr. Porter was appointed district cu in May, 1912. when the local branch Nevada and parts of California have been added and under his supervision. He attended the University of Nevada in Reno and has had eleven years' ex-peiience ex-peiience with the United States reclamation reclama-tion service, Kuhn Irrigation and power projects In Idaho and geological survey in the western states. Alaska and the WashinRton. b. C-. office. Mr. Porter Is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the Utah Society of Engineers. In hie new position, Mr. Porter will have charge of the water." of the West View Irrigation company, Payette Canal company. Dover Irrigation company. Wellington Canal company. Mclntyre Canal company, Sevier River Land & Water company. Iemlngton Irrigation Ir-rigation company, Dell land & Water company. Melville Irrigation company, Abraham Irrigation company, Deseret Irrigation Ir-rigation company. Midland Canal company com-pany and Rlchlands Irrigation company. |