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Show CONTRACT FOR USE OF STRAWBERRY IS SET AT $7500 i The Utah Fish and Game Department De-partment this week received its expected contract from the Strawberry, Straw-berry, and copies were immediat- for "fishing rights" on the fatraw-berry, fatraw-berry, and copies were mmediat-ely mmediat-ely sent to the five commissioners and the Utah Attorney General's Office for study, according to R. L. Turpin, Director. The contract, Turpin said, called cal-led for a flat payment of $7500 a vear for fishing rights, aside from construction and maintenance of a gravel road some six miles long (which would cost upward of $25,000). The contract also stipulated stipu-lated for the closing of the Strawberry Straw-berry tributaries, and also provided provid-ed for the stocking of these streams. It also stipulated how the state fish and game department depart-ment should stock the Strawberry Reservoir as compared to other parts of the state. It further provided, according to Director Turpin, for the riprap-ping riprap-ping and cementing of certain areas around the spillway and the construction and maintenance of parking areas around the end of the lake. The state, Turpin said, paid $1000 for fishing privileges this year, $900 the year before, and $100 less each preceeding year for 10 years The price of $7500, plus all the' other improvements which would run' the rental at about $50,000, is quite a bit more than we have been willing to pay in the past, Turpin said. The Commission Com-mission will call a meeting to discuss this after all have had time to study it. |