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Show f B'S WATERS jlL BESTOHED Asiociation Holds f8t Work Should Be ; Echo Canyon. E,penditureof $4,000,- 0 Will Put Sand Ridge Under Irrigation. ,utlve committei of the Utah as.ocl.Uon decide at . lZZ in I" (tK" ln he caplto1 , r-ommtnd that for the l' ff(orla be concentrated on the It was estlmateJ that by 'iture ot H.000.000 son.e 60.000 V i water could be stored In llll "d conducted to Weber and ,!,. fy a canal that would be C thn thcDav.s and Weber 1 .in canal. This would enable r , ihA entire "sand rlrttre" h'Snth wit" could be brought f. win' not far from Centervllle. P,Sn.nt of small storage reser-Kt"fiil reser-Kt"fiil canvon-sltes (or which ln. eated-or br other KTfeMeved hat virtually all 'J In Dvl county that can be jjjllj Irritated culd brought vt- ht Early Expenses. i nt will recommend that r S aUlnst ..he counties Xn districts takln advantage filiation so far of the as-L as-L for the expenses Incurred by STul tn 1" hls manner the mm T, hin IICOOO, which has already -nSti, could come back to the and te ued as a sort of ! Ind for further investlsatlon. sfdh-aed by the committee to call ll m&S of the association for ,.KarV at 5:30. o'clock In ''i"Twhlch time It is-ex-iiMt the foil: report, of the en1-w en1-w at association w-tll have been U and the latest and most ac-CXr, ac-CXr, will have ln dl- ,iin into the form of dollar -in ind acre-feet. ' ;w st the meeting yesterday were (Wee of 0den. chairman of the IV. B. Wallace, George F. L(' state engineer: J. L LyteL !ilnater of the Strawherry recla-rurrlce recla-rurrlce project: LeRoy Dixon. I Provo; A. F. Parker and Oro i ,uL tnflneers for the association. . Meefian, secreury of the as- jra rtports summing up the actlt l-tlx l-tlx association are not yet avall-r avall-r Farter made a verbal report. , ti he raid that four reservoir at been ihurveyed, the Yellow ' Baer creek. Echo canyon and ':ttk; that linos have been run for "Mcir miles of canal, and that rart-' rart-' Kr Information, already prepared, : tn attested and compiled in the - Hard blow were received' by ' ectj which-have been conslder-.Kimed conslder-.Kimed .in Mr. Parker's report. . Dim Too Costly. forred that the cost of the Rates : r a.yve Heber City on the Provo as virtually prohibitive, conslder- 'amount of water that could be id With a dam 1J0 feet high t aler line, he estimated, only about rrt-leet ceokl be stored there.; At " i creek iita farther down' th cart : V other Kafid, KM IT.O00 acre- U be stored, with actually less r moved than at. the Bates site. lDUId be 10w feet hlirh to the w. This site he considered as r Itaslble, but he said that con-. con-. i Investigation would have to be . n before a final report could lie V He noted, among other thlrtvs, " stations being made ty t.e stnte '. amlfsion near that sit.' h.wl ,n- l bed of extremely porous sh:lle, ; tnce o( which was enllrely nsn.i- fr as he knew. Thin dl l riot .- condemn the site as untisatile, U make further Investigation neo- He had found no signs of any lavlnj been mule lo reach bed- "Kliminary Surveys. : . "Irker said that two lines had i.rtt'ed (or a canal from Enterprise) ( the mouth of Weber canyon, sjlfcfse was designated as a high-Jl high-Jl and would cost something like n according to estimates. The F contrast, was designated as the would. cost .$702,900, accord- frtlmates. The latter was Ttl tl than, the Davis . and . Weber Lra; nd the high line was 103 Iher Up the mountainside, t mrker'j opinion, no particular P would be gained by using the f canal, since it did not touch ermund until far south In Davis (The so-called -low line" would fiKwt all the tillable area until rnll ttountlfu), and the water !' cheaply pumped there to a pet. unless some arrangements ft ,1 a'v ' 'e water rights, un-f un-f tj higher lands (here could be L i i 01 ntlr fett ,rni the would bring the '"the lower edge of soil bo , , W1 hardly eronomlcal to i under present aericultural con. ;' feu f1"0 "Parted that It Is not I rJl, tkc Provo river water Sevpu OTUnty. He declared ' i "7? tunnel would l refer re-fer "I01 wnlch would put the U r 'e preoent out of the ques- '''ferv'T0;''0 'hat a siphon f Cf M C?" aoe.ft at the JTJi VWuld alrry. during the ". some 1J.ROO acro-feet l 'I.,,,'1n the dlr-et fl.T of t'- er rn-',' T? !h o. ,ieT the - snovid tJiat prove to be : if..',, fi"d atntion to tht I. sne-hing like d; : ' rC ,"-vl and w-tr win-' win-' ?,7"?4'i:t " cor.l. he ''V ',.",-4"'"''- To Irrigata prou-' prou-' ' T. V"1" l(:' making 41 . Jr -ht are -Hti. Jl "'r '-Km-., wuulil "; roi.-v, I,', .,"f,t "urliig June and '''A ll J 11" mJKgeuW ', p lPI'lied from tiie pt'.-th. pt'.-th. ? "HJ.y leitjng the. w V,nivn-! 2-7 'feet Into |