Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 5 | C C C to Push Drouth Relief

ci f f C C TO PUSH t f DROUTH RELIEF l Two Permanent Projects Will Wille f Be e Undertaken Other f Work Speeded I With the assignment of ot two t C C CC C camps to the bureau of r reclamation L I. two o drouth relief projects of a perS perI permanent per manent anent nature will be started and I work on Irr irrigation gation projects in Utah will be speeded up according to E. E O. O Larson engineer He said some of E the work will be undertaken immediately immediately imme and other projects will be beIt 17 constructed by winter camps to be ber beI It r I opened about October 1 I. I r ri A camp which will accommodate r f more than 2000 men will be assembled assem- assem 1 f bled at Currant creek cast east of Heber Hebert a City within a few days and the member mem memo hers berg will build a feeder canal from Currant creek to the Strawberry reservoir res tes t for the diversion of or more of tb high water of that stream to the Strawberry project when it II is not the Uintah basin needed in f. f f Mr 1 Larson said this camp will t probably remain at Currant creek r until October when it will be moved fc to Moon lake for lor the construction of ct the second project The camp r will Wm be used to build a feeder canal k from the Duchesne to the Lake Fork I river w which ich will make possible the utilization of ot from to s acre acre feet of high water each year Which otherwise would go to waste With the assignment t of the C C C CInca men Inca to the bureau Mr Larson Larron saide said E the Moon lake project is now as as- J whether there is a surplus ini inthe in i the lake fund or not nolo It is Js expected 5 S that bids for the project will be advertised advertised ad ad- I in about 30 days v The other C C C camp ramp is now being assembled at Becks Beck's creek near r Ephraim It will have about men They will excavate for feeder canals canals' to the Ephraim tunnel which will soon be built as a unit of the Sanpete project Mr Larson ann announced that this camp will be moved to Ogden about October 1 I where a winter camp will willbe willbe willbe be established There the work will consist of road building a and d clearing aring brush and trees from irom the site of ot the pr proposed posed reservoir The camp will willbe willbe willbe be assembled two miles northwest of Huntsville Miss Mae A A. A deputy com corn commissioner missioner of the reclamation bureau will leave Washington D. D C. C Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day dayon on a a tour of inspection of ot western west west- ern em reclamation projects according to word from the capital She willJO will go JO first to Denver and then come come to Salt Lake City later going to R Reno no and other western cities