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Show Bill Asks U. S. to Take Over Fort Watershed From City Transfer of the watershed areas en ths Fort Douglas reservation, as wen as large tracts of forest lands now under Salt Lake City administration, to the department of agriculture Wednesday eras proposed to the United States ""TsenTArthur V. Watklns (Ft, Utah) said ths transfer Is directly in line with the expressed wishes of ths Salt Lake City commission. Ths blU by Sen. Watklns would relieve the dty of the cost of maintaining and protecting large tracts of watershed area in Emigration, Emi-gration, Parleys and Mill Creek canyons by transferring these lands to the f dreat service for inclusion in-clusion la ths Wasatch national forest Also provided In the bill la ths transfer of large tracts of the Fort Douglas reservation to the forest service for administration administra-tion and supervision. The servlcs would assume operation op-eration and maintenance of the federal culinary water system currently cur-rently serving; government agendas agen-das that still occupy ths central portion of the old reservation. Water Commissioner D. A. Affleck Af-fleck aald be preferred to withhold comment until he knows exactly what the bill provides. Mayor Earl J. Glade said "I am Interested in learning the provisions provi-sions of the hill. Of course ths dty win be eager to partidpata to anything that wlU protect our watershed.1' ' |