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Show DEER CREEK, ! LAKE DIKING PLANSMATURE Representative Committee to Meet at State Capital Monday Morning Representatives of Utah, Salt Lake and Wasatch counties, coun-ties, municipalities and irrigation irri-gation companies, will meet at the state capitol Monday at 9 a. m. to perfect the setup set-up under which the Deer Creek and Utah lake diking projects may be secured for this state. The two projects will require re-quire an appropriation from the public works fund of $7,600,000. Each unit named above will have an official delegate at Monday's meeting, at which final obstacles which may delay the speedy authorization auth-orization of the project will be removed. Cocal Representatives- Local representatives on the committee are Raymond Holhrook and Elmer A. Jacobs for Provo city; Hilton A. Robertson, Utah county; J. W. Knight. Provo Reservoir Reser-voir company; J. W. Gillman and R. J. Murdock, Provo Reservoir Waterusers' company. The commitlee will attempt to obtain a stipulation of the water rights to the 75,000 acre-feet the Utah lake diking project is expected ex-pected to conserve, as well as water to be made available by the Deer Creek project. It will also be the committee's task to ascertain the amount of water available for sale and to whom it can be sold. When the committee meets, a stipulation prepared by E. B. Deb-ler Deb-ler of Denver, hydraulic engineer for the federal bureau, will be ready for approval. Word from Washington was to the effect that with the return of Secretary of War George H. Dern, a member of the public works board, the prospects for approval of the entire $14,000,000 Utah reclamation rec-lamation program will be given final approval. It developed Saturday that there is a strong possibility that Utah will actively participate as a state in the proposed metropolitan water wa-ter district to aid in the obtaining obtain-ing the public works fund necessary neces-sary to build the projects. ' I |