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Show UTAH LAKE LANDOWNERS MEET WITH COUNTY BOARD TO DISCUSS LAKE PROJECT Project Is Clarified at Mass Meeting; Sentiment Senti-ment of Land Owners Appears to be More Favorable Than Previously Sittine as a board of information in the matter of hearing hear-ing discussions and answering questions pertaining to the Utah Lake Control district, the board of Utah county commissioners com-missioners spent all day Saturday explaining details of the proposed project. The o-enera! sentiment of the landowners had changed from thatof last week and it was apparent that a large majority ma-jority of those who met Saturday were in favor of maintaining main-taining the district until such time as a proposal might be made by the U. S. Reclamation bureau with regard to a lake control project. v. A. O. Smoot Presides , The morning session, which con-reuedin con-reuedin the Provo hiah school audt-lorium. audt-lorium. was called to order by Chairman A. (I. Smoot of the county coun-ty board. "W. O. freer, member ol ;'he Utah Water Storage Commission, Commis-sion, mil lined four proposed projects for the control of the lake, as follows: fol-lows: Enlarging the .Ionian river and shortening, ils course from the outlet to the .Ionian Narrows from ten to seven and one-fifth miles; lowering Salt Lake, Jordan and L'ast .Ionian canals. The cost of this project was estimated at, S:lUS,'.)Uo. t'his proposal also included the construction con-struction of a surplus canal at Twenty-first South street, Salt Lake county', and enlarging the Jordan the work thus far accomplished. Other speakers, all of whom favored fav-ored the keeping ot the district organization or-ganization intact, were Andrew' Knudsen, Stark Austin of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company, J. R. Mur-dock: Mur-dock: president and general manager mana-ger of a score of irrigation projects; W. f. (hem, of the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad company; Onirics .M nelson. Attorney Martin II. Larson, Lar-son, and members of the board of county commissioners. At the conclusion of the meeting Chairman Smoot of Hie county board staled that the question would remain open for discussion until Monday. April IS. after which lime the county 1 vd would soek to arrive at'concltisious. , river at an additional cost ot l?2Li,-1175. l?2Li,-1175. making a total estimated cost of Srj'Jfi.HSO for project No. 1. Project No. 2 tails for lake control con-trol in connection with Provo Bay, at an estimated cost of S-413,11S. Project. No. 3 calls for an agreement agree-ment with the Associated Cana! contpaiOes of . Salt Luke i unity, and relates to the storage of water iu Utah lake and regulation of witters wit-ters at intake of Jordan river. This project, would cost S:;i;s.iKr,, according accord-ing to Mr. Creer's compilation. Project No. 4 has to do with lake control by dyking the lake shores Old would cost 2S4.00O. Schedule of Costs The schedule of costs for these various proposed projects averages from $(1.20 to -f 1(.2(,1 rcr acre, depending de-pending upon the project and the assessed valuation: Following Mr. Creer's discussion, A. Z. Uicbards of the firm of Caldwell Cald-well and Uicbards, engineers, gave a resume of the work accomplished in designating boundaries of the district, and checking rolls of assessments as-sessments nn.1 bills of benefits as issued by government engineers. At the afternoon session E. S. Itinckley, member of the board of control, made a fervent plea on behalf be-half of the lake control district, in which he declared that there are interests in counties lying north of the lake which would make of the lake a reservoir for their use, buy the lands that conic within a five-foot five-foot compromise contour, or have those lands condemned, in order to utilize the waters ot the lake at their convenience. Mr. Hinckley declared that the board of control bad done every- thing within its power for the benefit bene-fit of the district, and in answer to former speakers who declared that the landowners coming under the Strawberry project bad been assessed assess-ed many times more than original estimates had called for, declared that those landowenrs bad failed to make proper preliminary surveys and estimates of cost. He urged tin! farmers to deliberate on the proposition propo-sition and make a closer study of it. before they went, on record as opposed to the organization. Report Called Tor Jacob Evans, a Salt Lake attorney, attor-ney, representing certain land owners, own-ers, called Tor a detailed report of expenditures to date. His inquiry was answered in a general way by I. W. Alleinan. member of the board ot" control, who review'ed briefly |