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Show STRAWBERRY TO INCLUDE UTAH LAKEPROJECT Leatherwood Urges Extension Exten-sion of Strawberry to Include In-clude Provo- Weber. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Give to the water users oil the Strawberry valley irrigation project the accured rentals from their grazing lands surrounding sur-rounding the Strawberry resevoir and they will be able to wipe out their delinquency and stand 100 per cent paid up on the hooks of the government. Give them all future receipts from these grazing lands and receipts from their power plane as they accrue and the Strawberry valley project will never again show delinquency. This was the substance of an appeal ap-peal and a prediction made today by Representative E. O. Leather-wood Leather-wood to the fact-finding commission. The Strawberry valley project, he said, was an eminently successful undertaking and its success should encourage the government to extend its work of arid laud reclamation in the Great Salt Lake valley. "Hut," said Mr. Leatherwood- "I am no longer asking for the adoptatiun of a new project in Utah. I am now following the examples of the very successful people of Idaho and am urging an extension of the Strawberry Straw-berry valley project to take in lauds lying north of the present project, extending as for north as Ugden." -Mr. Leatherwood said he has learned Idaho has not in recent years been asking for projects, hut for extensions of existing projects. The American Falls, involving the expenditure of ten millions or more, was not authorized as a new project, pro-ject, but as an extension of the Minidoka. He wants the same system sys-tem of extension applied to Utah, liecoguiziug the prejudice against new projects and the success that has attended efforts of the Idaho people to haviidoiiriAvifeir-fyi'lW'iiiR haviidoiiriAvifeir-fyi'lW'iiiR winter months and seven I ::; "ur- -Leatherwood now pre-Sl pre-Sl contemplated work in Salt Lake valley as extensions of the fetrawberry valley project. Kepreseutative Leatherwood spent nearly two hours with the fact-fS ug commission this morning, dis. cussmg the situation on the Strawberry Straw-berry project. He went minutely into the swry ofthe 50,000-aere Bz 'the r,e,n'e Thith Was Phased by fLJ , amat,on seriee from the Lintah Indians at $1.25 an acre and the cost charged up as one of the constructions costs of the project He cited the act of April 4, $0 which provided that "the title.man-agement title.man-agement and control thereof (that is, of the grazing lauds) shall pass to the owners of the lands-irrigated from said project... He also described des-cribed the effort last session of con-gress con-gress to have these lands turned over to the forest service and the de featt of the legislation in the in-terost in-terost of the Strawberry valley area. owners oi tfiis thnttt "te Mr' Leatherwood showed that the revenues derived from this grazing area amounted to $15S,765, hut the money is being withheld from the settlers by the reclamation service. The total delinquency on the Strawberry valley pA.ject on construction charges is $79 948 nZ 7Zeran'!D aud m"i"tenance is held l,v ii grazing receipts now j held by the government, he showed would wipe out all delinquency and leave more than 00,0w to the credit ot the water users. I |