Show 5 RESTORES A FOR 1 AQUEDUCT i. i by lof f Speedy Start el Begins Action ea by the public ks administration o of i for construction o of Salt Lake Lake- aqueduct aqueduct- rawn by P W A Friday yas announced Monday by byI I or Elbert D. D Thomas 5 K Burlew assistant to In In- In Harold L L. Ickes pi told me over tle the telephone IS El the order order- 3 rescinding the e had been bren Sena- Sena Thomas said In Salt Lake hiat at t means that we are ready nf ahead from where we left off ri d' the money was withdrawn tji-e tji e are ready to advertise fori for fOE i on construction t tor r William H. H ling King in a a. at t gam m from Washington D. D DC D.C. C p Herbert 3 S. S Auerbach chair chairman ian inboard board board of the Salt Lake City 1 water district con con- I restoration of the funds tion estor n of the money money- for the thed d t phase of ot the Provo river t was the result of intensive tF by Senator Thomas Sen Sen- p ICing other members of C Utah congressional i Henry HenryH H H. Blood I he Salt Lake City metro- metro tan tin water district board effort board effort ched almost upon the moment script receipt here Friday of ot news that iI tf of Utah's chief work relief relict for winter employment dur- dur 39 33 had been cut off at the tit ked baked the basis on which the cy i had been restored Senator mas DM said I The money was wall restored on the theis is that list I had given gInn m mj my as- as ince nce that the metropolitan wa- wa district was read ready to go ahead vere cre ready to be he ad- ad 1 that the repayment con con- Ki it was ready for or execution Tto lIto why the money had been drawn Senator Thomas said I 1 The allotment was withdrawn on ground that tha the project could Ibe be started by by- January 1 the set by an act of congress hf view a to speeding the em em- benefits benefit of the new s. s Is not started by I luary uary I 1 nothing can be done to the aqueduct he added Uter ter being advised by Senator K mas omas of the restoration Gover- Gover said Very aVery fine Indeed I had not nott t lIghtest slightest doubt that the thc money aId ild d be restored but in cornn corn com n with everybody e else elst I was sas little perturbed about it I felt the withdrawal of the funds due to a a. misunderstanding Ich would be corrected as soon J I got my mes message age through Blood Friday held a tel- tel one conversation with Marvin Intyre secretary to President D. D Roosevelt and was told Wf till t he outlined the case over telephone to a stenographer o ld be placed before the is not the slightest doubt lay mind that the requirements Lithe I e met to enable getting this j Set t started right away the gov- gov II e a b been en assured by the wa- wa board oard that it is ready to do its nd I have been bee assured Mr by R R. F. F Walter Waiter in Denver t engineer for the reclamation eau reau that bids would be be- adver adver- fin what he said would be a w days ays In I a telephone conversation Fri Fri- P r with Governor GO Blood Mr 1 lter said his office had been to ca call for bids on construe construe- fn II n of the Olmstead tunnel phase the aqueduct t when hen a halt was MA lied ed because the funds had been drawn Differences Pyrenees of opinion arose as t to y exactly the funds had been rawn some seeing as M. M the e a a. P W A belief that the m pro Continued on Page Ten Column Five Ie PW A RESTORES AQUEDUCT FUND Continued from Pa Page e One could be not be started by January i 1 The president has the power however to require by executive order order order or or- der that an earlier deadline be ob ob- ob- ob served An executive order in June set August as 15 deadline for awarding of the construction contract al although al- al though Gov Governor Blood obtained a week four-week extension for award of this contract Mr Walter has been quoted as assaying assaying assaying saying that execution of the repayment repayment repayment repay repay- ment contract the contract the agreement between between between be be- tween the water district and nd the federal government re repayment repayment repayment re- re payment of the money to the reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- bureau must bureau must precede awarding of the construction contract contract contract con con- tract although it need not precede advertising for bids on the construction construction con con- contract While some factions regarded the repayment contract as the source of the entire difficulty some water board members considered it as of secondary importance in time re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting th that t the district had for a year been trying to get it cleared up only to have have Ie reclamation officials ch dais say it was not of ot first Importance Importance Importance tance in time Mr Auerbach Monday afternoon said he had just signed the repayment repayment repayment repay repay- ment contract as chairman of the water district board and and as as authorized authorized authorized author author- at a board Friday |