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Show WATER USERS MEET 4 TO DISCUSS IRRIGATION PLAN Water users from Wasatch, Juab and Utah counties discussed the i irrigation problems of their reg- ions at a meeting of the newly created Utah Power and Water board held last Wednesday afternoon after-noon in the Provo city and county building. I The meeting, according to Lee Taylor, Springville, secretary of the Utah County Water Users association, as-sociation, was the last in a series of meetings that have been conducted con-ducted by the new board throughout through-out the state so that an idea of the needs of the water users in various communities may be determined. de-termined. W. R. Wallace, Salt Lake City, chairman of the new board, recommended that each county group get busy and recommend recom-mend various projects that are needed now to alleviate the irrigation irri-gation problems in their various areas so that the new board might function properly. Mr. Taylor differed from this opinion, however, stating that the basis for all future irrigation projects proj-ects in the state should be a report which has already been prepared, at considerable expense to the state, by Orson W. Israelsen, head of irrigation at Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. This report, according ac-cording to Mr. Taylor, is very comprehensive com-prehensive and since it has already been prepared, and is based on a thorough scientific study of the water problems of Utah, should be used instead of any other plan. Mr. Wallace, chairman of the board, also recommended that the legislature be asked to set up an additional fund through which various counties could get state aid in building whatever new projects proj-ects are needed in their districts. He pointed out that such a fund, amounting to one million dollars, has already been set up, and that each succeeding legislature could add another million to take care of the irrigation needs. |