OCR Text |
Show Dyking of Lake May Prove Too Expensive for Government Govern-ment to Undertake In view of the trend of events relating to the proposed Utah lake reclamation project, unanimous sentiment sen-timent of the members of the reclamation recla-mation committee of the Provo Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting meet-ing held in this city Tuesday even, ing, favored the immediate dredging dredg-ing of the Jordan river from its intake in-take to the Jordan narrows as the most feasible way of stabilizing the waters of the lake, if dyking should prove too expenseve as shown by government engineers. Such a course, it was pointed out, would make it possible in flood water season to rid the lake of from 1200 to 1400 second feet of water per minute and thus keep it at compromise com-promise point throughout the entire year. With the establishment of modern canneries that are demanding vast acreages of truck gnrden products, which means the need of a much greater acreage to meet this demand, de-mand, it is pointed out thnt something some-thing must be done to fill these re-nuirements re-nuirements and at the same time supply the sugar factories of the rounty with beets in sufficient quantities quan-tities to keep them In operation also. This, it was stilted, can only be done by reclaiming the cast area of waterlogged laud surrounding the Inke. The course of the Jordan river now carries the water n distance of eleven miles, whereas a straight course would cut the distance to a fraction more than four miles. While in Washington recently Judge James B. Tucker held n conference con-ference with Senator Reed Smoot, who declared thnt he wns In hearty accord with the movement to reclaim re-claim the lands surrounding the lake and would do everything within his power to get the work started Just as soon as possible. Members of the local chamber will meet with the Utah water storage stor-age commission Thursday to discuss dis-cuss further detnils of the project. |