Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-22 | Page 8 | Board Discusses Piute Water Row

BOARD DISCUSSES PIUTE PI UTE WATER ROW ROWA A water resources survey surveyor of the Salt Lake Cit City area and the financial financial financial finan finan- cial tangle of ot the Piute water distrIct district dis- dis were discussed at an executive executive executive tive session of ot the state water storage commission Wednesday attended attended attended at at- tended by directors of oC the metropolitan metropolitan metropolitan metro metro- politan water district and members of the tho state land board The storage storage- commissioners ers and water district directors were expected expected ex ex- to discuss the pending state- state federal survey of or the tho proposed Deer creek aqueduct for which the state has posted 1700 for Utah's share of ot the w work rk In the Piute district settlers havIng having haying hav hay ing defaulted on bonds the state has been foreclosing on the prop prop- erty It has been proposed that the state and bondholders write off offa a major part of ot the investment and the state become a settler in the district