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Show smoot goes ' oneecgsdfor; ! Senator Assures Herald iicatl- ers Thai He Fawns Sirav j furry E?.i'.-;vion. v :. I S, nal.-r Red Sm-.i. in a l-';" t" " I staunch advocate of cvP-n-i't" ' ; , I of the S; ra. berry proj.-d to in- I ! elude the rod:: ma : . n of Flail InU'-' ' Waler-lo vd lands, lie says that, V . if any hew proj.-.-ts are indmb d in appropriation bi!N pa.-in- at ibis ' session of eongoss the Flab lake project will be "included without a ; doubt." - j ; Many of Flah county citizens j ; have petitioned Ftah's senior son a- j tor, a resident of I'rovo. to use his ' most serious effort to include the I tah lake reclamation program in an appropriation J'ill as an extcu- sion of the Strawberry project. State Senator LeRoy Dixon and Judge .Tamos B. Tucker are now in Washington representing the people interested in the reclaiming of Utah lake lands. ' ' Senator Smoot's letter follows: ''. The Daily Herald, , I'rovo, Utah. ' This will acknowledge receipt of j your night lettergram of March 14, 1!24. reading as follows: ' "It is consensus of opinion of ' j readers of Provo Daily Herald that j a reclamation project for state of ; Utah commencing logically with ' i control of Utah lake should be put ! over this term of congress. Our citizens count on your support." ; I have never lost sight for a ; moment of the extension of the ; Strawberry Valley project and you j ! can rest assured that if any new ' ! projects are appropriated for at ! this session of Congress and I be- ! ; lieve there will be, the extension ; fhStrawberry project will -eluded 'ithuit a doubt. ' 3 I have thelmf)jTr?NYeU r t fi l i 1 Yours trulv, . 3 1 REED sT-P ? Senator William II. King, ! message to The Herald agrei -3 . j, : 1 the Utah Lake project logical - ' , : ; be considered as a part o. - Strawberry project and as su. "js ' not a new project. If this idea ; ' vails as it has with several Idaho projects the early reclamation of Utah lake lands appear certain. t Senator Smoot, though, in his ad- . dress in the senate indicated that he considered the Utah county project as a separate and new project, as j tnat it snoutu await inclusion as a now project in an appropriation ' bill. j Utah county's delegation, now in Washington, are working on the extension ex-tension plan and hope that congress ' may be persuaded to consider this ' an extension of the Strawberry Val- ley project and not ns a new undcr-1 undcr-1 taking. |
