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Show WATER USERS ASK STATE AID Water users from Washington, Carbon and Emery counties met with the state water storage commission com-mission Tuesday afternoon at the capitol to seek aid in developing water resources In their sections. Governor Herbert B. Maw told the Washington group at a separate sepa-rate meeting in the forenoon that he would do his best to raise living standards of Washington county citizens, but pointed out responsibility for water development develop-ment "rests primarily with citizens of the area," the state's function being to aid where it could. Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price, heading the Carbon county committee, com-mittee, asserted most groups of the area, favor the Gooseberry water project, Including rebuilding of the Schofield dam, as outlined by the United States bureau of reclamation. reclama-tion. Emery county's representatives representa-tives also held a separate discussion discus-sion before meeting with the commission. com-mission. The Washington county men adopted a resolution commending State Engineer T. H. Humpherys for "the great service he has rendered ren-dered Utah In development of the state's water resources." |