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Show Reclamation Bureau Turns Its' Attention Toward Utah WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (V.V.) With constructionu of the Echo dam on the Weber river in Utah well under way, the reclamation bureau is turning its attention to other units of the Great Salt Lake reclamation program, Commissioner Commission-er Elwood Mead said today. The reclamation bureau, he said, cooperating with the Utah Water Storage commission, is planning to erect dams on the Ogden and Provo rivers. Several sites on the former are bt'ing considered. The bureau has net decided which project will be started first. Indecision among those interested in the program, as to the phase they wane begun ne'xt, is causing some delay, Mead said. E. O. Larson, the bureau's engineer engi-neer at Salt Lake City, has surveyed sur-veyed the proposed Magpie re'ser-voir re'ser-voir site on the Ogden river and has recommended the dam be placed there. However, two days ago, W. H. Wattis, head of the Utah Construction Construc-tion company, of Ogden, and former for-mer candidate for governor of Utah, visited Commissioner Mead in Washington. He urged the Ogden rivo'r dam be placed some distance below the Magpie site. Mead announced today he was writing Larson to ask his opinion opin-ion on the feasibility of a new survey sur-vey based on Wattis' recommendations, recommenda-tions, and if Larson advises it, the survey will probably be made, Mead said. The Great Salt Lake basin plan was outlined by Secretary of Interior In-terior Work late in 1926. It provides pro-vides for a 10-year program, costing cost-ing $15,000,000. The F.cho dam on the Wetier river, the first unit of the program, is now under construction. It will cost, when completed $3,000,000. |