Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 4 | Settlement

SETTLEMENT IE T TIT IT jT IS a most gratifying ng thing that the differences differ differ- which have lla threatened to defeat the Deer Creek water project have been composed The IThe controversy contro oy over r the enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise hal had ara dragged over oyer many months when finally the primary and secondary users of or Utah lake Jake water rea reached hed an ail agre agreement oh on its Division qi This is s the tile first step toward vard the signing of binding stipulations and opens up up I Ithe the possibility of an early carly beginning of the Utah lake Jake project vital ital as a water conservation con con- measure neasure and vital ital as an immediate emergency recovery and employment activity The Thc other two major portions of the whole undertaking undertaking un un- un- un l are the reservoir in canyon and the tunnel to io transfer water wafer fro from in the Duchesne river to the watershed which will win feed the reservoir Rerouting 1 g of the Denver Rio Grande tracks oh the branch line and of the state highway will be necessitated in order that they may skirt the tile storage lake which will inundate their present sites and a alar lar large c area of lowlands now dry dryas as dust Chief beneficiaries of the whole Deer Creek project will willbe be bc Utah and Salt Lake county industrial farmers users and Salt Lake Lak Cit City which augments its augments its present water supply by bythe bythe bythe the bringing in of new v water from a remote source thereby increasing its insurance against drouth resulting from abnormally insufficient precipitation on the watersheds feeding the can canyon on streams which are arc the basic basie sources of the city's supply It is not wholly clear whether hether the new w water ter will add to the supply for O culinary r use which is an essential p part rt of any plan looking to the tIle future Salt lt share of f the cost of or the thc J City's Deer Creek project t i Is set sef down at to be pai paid id in iii yearly instalments over overa a period of 40 years Construction of the complete com eom- J ete undertaking is to be financed by a reclamation reclamation rec rec- service loan Very Tery naturally Ui the C out long tit cont controversy contro- contro ro- ro versy has subjected some some of the parties to it to criticism Each nevertheless it must be assumed as as- was wai compelled to view yiew the pr project jeet primarily primarily marily from irom the standpoint of self The compromises which finally permitted the approach to definite agreements entitle all concerned concerned concerned con con- to appreciation for saving to tile the state th the opportunity ity to undertake the thc enterprise as originally planned To all who have patiently and determinedly fought to carry it through the progress recorded Thursday must be lying ing If in the end the promises made for forit forit forit it are arc realized these citizens will be accorded high praise as public benefactors