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Show Deer Creek?.. Forest Control Projects to Aid Unemployment Mead, -Robinson Working to Allocate Funds For Reclamation Job j Eiirly activity on the Dour Crock project may be realized real-ized if plans of Commissioner Elwood Mead of the reclamation reclama-tion bureau and Congressman Congress-man J. W. Robinson of Provo are successfully carried out. Mr. Mead has already lecommended to President Roosevelt Roose-velt that funds set aside for irrigation irri-gation in the three-billion dollar public works be allocated for reclamation projects. Under this ! plan, Utah will receive $14,000,000, ; -vhich the Deer Creek project j i'o be built in Provo canyon will require $8,000,000. Other projects in the state 1 would be the Webev canyon $3,-000,000; $3,-000,000; the Moon lake or Myton project, $2,000,000, and the Hyrum slightly less than $1,000,000. The first money will be allocated to projects on which men can be put to work early in the summer. ! The Deer Creek project is one on j which all the preliminary engineering engi-neering work has been completed, placing it in line for one of the favored fav-ored projects. Construction work can start here within two months if the water users of Salt Lake and Utah counties, including the Salt Lake dity1 corporation and other municipalities, sign up promptly to assume their share of the cost of the project. Time is so important an element that Dr. Mead requested Representative Represen-tative Robinson, on his return to Utah, to appeal to the land owners under the four projects named, and exert his influence to have them obligate themselves and their lands, and close contracts with the government, so that there may be no unnecessary delay. Prolonged delay on the part, of the land owners own-ers would result in diversion oE the allocated funds to projects where the farmers arc rendy to contract for the repayment of construction costs. l Erosion Control Work To Be Performed Under Federal Plan Preliminary plans for tlic organization of civilian forest corps in this region were outlined out-lined Tuesday morning when the governor's committee on state forest camps met with a local committee appointed through the chamber of commerce. com-merce. The state committee of five is responsible for the conduct of 11 state camps with 200 men to the camp. One of these is to be located lo-cated near Springville. The static camps arc in addition to 19 national na-tional forest camps being established estab-lished in Utah. One Camp Here "There is much work to be done by President Roosevelt's forest army," Mark Anderson, chairman of the local committee, said today. "Surveys and plans are not lacking and these young men will not be working aimlessly. The beneficial results of their work will soon be apparent." It is the plan now for the forest corps to construct numerous small cheek dams high up on the watersheds where the devastating floods common to Utah originate. Work wiil begin in a few days on the Little Rock canyon area near Springville. Improve Watersheds It is hoped that these smaller dams will tend to check erosion and gulleying until the normal covering of vegetation can be restored re-stored and relied upon. Many watersheds wa-tersheds have been seriously damaged dam-aged by overgrazing and burning. Other members of the local committee, com-mittee, in addition to Mr. Anderson, Ander-son, arc: Charles De Moisy, Jr., Swcii O. Nielson, Isaac Brockbank, Mayor John Whiting of Springville, Spring-ville, Harold Makin, Dr. Vasco M. Tanner, William Witney and Clayton Clay-ton Jenkins, secretary. Ultimately it is the object of both the state and federal government govern-ment to eliminate private ownership owner-ship from important watershed areas susceptible to burning and grazing. The administration of these lands by the U. S. forest service or by the state land board would be greatly simplified if their respective holdings could bo separated separ-ated and consolidated. L. M. Winsor, member of the state committee of five, has already al-ready demonstrated the feasibility of checking the Utah type of flood with dams. Other members of the state committee are C. L. Forsling, chairman, who has long been in charge of national forest investigations investi-gations in this region; Reed Bailey, Bail-ey, geologist from the U. S. A. C; George Fisher, executive secretary of the state land board, and Preston Pres-ton G. Peterson, member of the state road commission. |