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Show UTAH LAKE GONTROL PROJECT- DISCUSSED tliL' Suit Luke basin project is to he constructed out of the St3,00().OUO Mllotcd to Uttili. Control Is Sou;;Irt The Utnli Water Storage comniis-sion comniis-sion bas been justified in milking this investigation and in asking for the appropriation to construct I lie project, for the reason that several times during the consideration of this matter larpe delegations of laud owners around the lake have waited on them, and asked for the control of the lake by the Roveniment and for the further reason that you have effected the kind of an orKunizatiou designated by the Reclamation bureau bu-reau to enter into, contract with the bureau for the repayment of the costs. If in the roll of benefits as made by your district suiervisors there is included laud that will not be benefitted or that will not be benefitted bene-fitted us much as designated, you should make protest, aud have adjustments ad-justments made but it -your land is benefitted, you should not make protest. You should keep this in mind, that no agreement for repayment of costs of construction of the lake control project by the Reclamation Bureau can or will be made unless each individual land owner has a chance to vote for or agninsf the amount he will he. obliged to pay, and further furth-er that those who sign the petition to the commissioners that was read in your meeting April 1, definitely determine, your, attitude toward Utah Lake control. If you land owners do not want me U. S. to construct the Utah Lake central project now is the time to declare yourselves so that the funds can be placed elsewhere. W. O. CHEER. Member of Utah Water Storage Commission. l Explanation of Progress and ' Plas for Project Is Given i Dy Member of Water Storage Stor-age Coir.mission. i To the land owners in the Utah Lake Control Drainage district: A meeting of some of the land owners of the above named district was held in the county building, April 1, and it was decided at that meeting to kill the district if possible. pos-sible. r.lition Is Ketui A petiliou to the county commissioners commis-sioners was read which slates in (fleet that "the Utah Lake control project, which contemplates the enlarging en-larging of Ihe Jordon river and the l'rovo river and holding the maximum height of the waters of the lake at compromise level" is constructed con-structed that, such construction will not benefit, their lands at all. Now Ibis is eilhcr true or it is not: If true then such lands should not be included ill Ihe district. If not true, such protest should not be made. For the past six years the Utah Water Storage commission has worked inces.-uniiv to sliow the Reclamation bureau of the United States that the Utah Lake should be controlled. Slli.000 has been expended ex-pended by the Reclamation bureau and by the state of Utah in making investigations to determine the cost of such project. Reports have been made showing the difficulties to be encountered and the benefits to be derived from such construction. The reports have been thoroughly considered con-sidered and decision reached that such project, is feasible and beneficial bene-ficial providing the land owners benefitted by such construction are willing to repay the cost of such construction to Ihe Reclamation bureau. bu-reau. Payments would be made over a period of twenty years without with-out interest, or on the plan of five per cent of the crops produced on the land per year. Ill the program of reclamation planned by the Reclamation bureau this unit, of |