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Show tSl'.JVaxtt of rhe Brigham Young uni- ; j versity, for an January 17 -school ;! j will be In session once more and it ' J may be possible to organize a hockey ' t team to represent the institution. ; : Provo city skaters, too, will welcome !; the change since the heavy snows !; have made practice almost impos- ; sible. - . :' );e Itzwi".'.:ro river wJVl '.tJOJI Irk river have been withdrawn fo-ng fo-ng and appropriation by Lloyd Jrrison, state engineer. The action ?:s approved by Governor Charles Mabey. According to James B. Tucker, gal advisor of the Utah Lake raiuage Control district, the with-awal with-awal was made at this time so at there will be ample water for .e reclaimed area In the Provo Bay strict and to prevent private indi-duals indi-duals from appropriating the ater and selling it later' to the ospective landowners of the Provo ay district. ' f 'he 7,500 acres of land to be re--nied in the bay district will ; '.4,100 acre feet of water for ir-g. ir-g. ,non purposes more than is now vailable from Spring Creek and obble Creek, according, to esti-atos esti-atos of the government engineers. The water from these sources now ithdrawn for filing purposes will 3 distributed evenly to the re-aimed re-aimed acres of the bay district. The rest of the water may either 3 obtained by purchase from the trawberry Canal company or be umped into canals from the dis-ict dis-ict itself. "Pumps will be in operation con-nually con-nually to keep the water away .om the reclaimed bay district," lid Judge Tucker. ' "Instead of limping that water in Utah lake, it lay be that the engineers will de-ise de-ise some means for the pumping of le water into canals and used for rigation purposes in the district. "All of the obtainable irrigation ater for the district will be dis-jibutert dis-jibutert evenly to the owners of the ind following the completion of the I'clamation project." ( ' The action of the state engineer ulicatcs that the reclamation of the rovo Bay district and the diking C Utah lake Is contemplated to be art of the first work to be done in jo proposed project, the first ap-l-opriation for which has recently !ien passed by congress. ; Water from Spring Creek will lie sed by the Columbia. Steel cor-jirntion cor-jirntion at its Ironton plant for joling purposes and will later be lanst'erred to the Irrigation dili hes 'the bay district. It is said that j'tbe-copluig imiryttiffiquatirfty of Sjnniiin may he added to the water "ling Its Tnlite- for- irrigation iter than previously. - |