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Show iiOICATl If claims may i be necessary f Agreement May be Reached a at Meeting of Associated H Canal Companies ' i iTHO DAM TO BE I FIRST PROJECT UNIT Commissioner Mead Intimates Nothing Will be Done on Utah Cake This Season Action on the proposed agreement fctwen tlic Utah lake landowners ,d tie canal companies of Salt Lake county as outlined by George jl flacon, state engineer, is expected It the meeting of the board of di-IKlors di-IKlors of the Associated Canal com. pries to be held Saturday. On the decision taken at that meeting will rtst the early action on the Utah lake uuit of the proposed Salt Lake basin reclamation project. If an agreement cannot be icaclied the matter will undoubtedly undoubted-ly be taken into court for adjudication, adjudica-tion, in which event, the Utah lake 1 unit may be postponed another 20 J years as was the ense when a sim-J sim-J liar .failure to agree killed a pro-i pro-i pofed reclamation project for the " feke for which was later substituted - He Strawberry project. - It is feared that should the mat-t mat-t ler have to be taken to court It ' roold not be settled for at least one - or two years. At a meeting of the water storage commission at Salt Lake City Tuesday, W. K. Wallace, chairman of the commission, expressed ex-pressed it as his opinion that an adjudication suit would be necessary. neces-sary. " t Reports from Washington are to tbe effect that Senator Reed Smoot baa urged the reclamation bureau that the Utah lake unit be the first I to receive attention. This, however, . will not be done, It is stated, since I tbe figures and compilations neces-!sary neces-!sary for the lake project are not 'gathered by the engineers as yet, I while nil of the data is available for the Echo dam. This project will I undoubtedly . be the first on which ictnln work is done, according to the Washington dispittches. ! Intimations from remarks given ; by Commissioner Elwood Mead are : to tho effect thnt the Provo unit S , will not be undertaken until late J this season or may go over until next year. This deiny, however, ! will not be allowed to interfere with or delay the construction of the I Echo dam. |