Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-10 | Page 1 | Utah is Given $600,000 for Drouth Fight

UTAH IS GIVEN j FOR DROUTH FIGHT White Ho Hoise se Fund for 90 Projects to Conserve Water WORK TO START AT ONCE Governor Expected to Name Control Board Dr By JENNINGS PHILLIPS Allaying fears of widespread dis dis- tress from drouth this summer dent Roosevelt Thursday ordered the notional national relief administration to allot for Utah water conserving projects This action gives the state exactly the amount it asked for tor drouth relief after an F FER E R A survey had studied the situation and recommended 90 projects r for r immediate construction Work bly will begin this week Meanwhile a possible obstacle to early stipulation of Utah lake rights and consequent construction of the Deer Utah creek lake project arose City commissioners sa said d the they would not sign a year three stipulation agreeing to take feet Instead In In- s stead of at Salt Lake City's decreed d por Lion tion or Of 44 until such im an Is carefully analyzed Will Appoint Board We have no legal right to sign sign away iway city cit rights in Utah lake Mayor Maor Marcus said and do not intend to todo tolo lo do so until the matter is i thoroughly analyzed and and p passed ed upon by legal advisers Word that the had been ranted was carried in on an Associated Press dispatch Governor Henr Henry JI IL Blood received a telegram from Sea Sen ator William H. H King telling of the action The governor announced he would appoint immediately a control board beard to Lo pass on all projects and direct con con- so work can begin without Jela He expressed gratification the money none w allott allotted d without red tape I Continued on Page Pue Three DROUTH RELIEF FUND IS Ig Roosevelt Directs Be Allotted to State for Fight FightS S d from Pare Page One allowIng the state F FER E R A to administer administer admin admin- ister the money as it sees fit Five to Seven Members Among projects affecting Salt Lake coun county y are dredging o of Provo bay in Utah lake pumping water from Millcreek Mill creek underflow concrete lining of a ditch and channel from Little Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- wood creek at Sandy similar lining and rip rapping ot of a ditch at Draper linin lining of the East Jordan canal pumping pumping pump pump- ing seepage from Jordan river back into the North Jordan canal And lining lin- lin ining ing a of the Salt Lake and Utah canaL naL The control board probably will include include in- in clude five to seven members State Engineer T T. H. H Humpherys Humphers and WilLiam William Wil Wil- liam R. R Wallace chairman of the state water storage commission probably probably ably will be members Aubrey Williams assistant to Harry L. L Hopkins national relief administrator administrator adminis- adminis conferred with Governor Blood and Robert H H. Hinckley Hinckle state F FER E R A hood head while en route to the Pacific coast from Washington F FER E R A to Cooperate He assured them the national F FER E R A realizes the situation in Utah and will cooperate fully He praised d the Utah relief administration Meanwhile the action o of city commissioners com com- com I missioners cast rost a shadow on hopes to obtain adoption of the proposed lake stipulation at a meeting o of users at atthe atthe the capitol at 10 a a. a m m. Friday The proposed stipulation was submitted to users Wednesday by the lake conciliation con con- comm committee Commissioner George D D. D Keyser Kerer told his colleagues he saw the proposal pro pro- poso for the first time Wednesday and agreed with the other c commissioners commis- commis that the city would be unable to complete its study of the matter by Friday morning Serious Proposition We do not wish to assume ume a dog in the manger attitude but at the same time the is s being asked to waive its rights to water with a potential potential poten- poten v value lue of which is Q a serious serious se- se rious proposition Commissioner K Keyser said He was instructed to summon A A. B. B Irvine and C C. C W W. Morse attorneys into conference with City Engineer William D. D Beers and City Attorney Fisher Harris to study the proposed stipulation Th The conciliation committee has stressed that the huge project may be lost it if a stipulation is not signed soon