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Show GROUP ASSURES WATER MARKET -FOR DEER CREEK Mill CreekTTsers Seek to Buy .Surplus . for Section Definite indication a portion of coat of Salt Lake City participation participa-tion In tha Deer creek project can be met by sal of surplus water In the area southeast of the city was received by the metropolitan water district Monday from tha Mill Creek Canyon Water Users' association. asso-ciation. The association. In a letter signed by A. C Melville, president, and R. M. Clayton, secretary, formally expressed an interest in acquiring ft wpptvnwfitwt Wes4",i""""""i" supply for 10 to 15 cubic feat of water per second from about July It to September IS of each year. Information aa to coat, terms and other condition was requested. Letter tfarfemd Tha letter was submitted to directors di-rectors of tha water district Monday Mon-day noon at tha University club and referred to L. H. Kimball engineer, engi-neer, pending outcome of tha water election to be held November 33. A favorable vote on that day will authorise tha water board to subscribe sub-scribe for stock representing 50,000 acre feet of the annual yield of the Deer creek reclamation project and to anter Into a contract with tha government for construction of an aqueduct to bring tha water ta tha city from Provo canyon. Cost of this work would be repaid by tha city without Interest over a period of 40 years, tb annual repayments re-payments totaling about $200,000. Sale of water not yet required by tha city to farmers arid resident of southeastern Salt Lake county, plus the new revenue from sal of water to meet the demand of' growing city population, will,. It I believed, raise this 1230.000 yearly without any lncraase In taxes or existing water rate. Several informal advances by . various groups regarding purchase of water which may be available from the aqueduct had previously been made, but the letter from tha Mill Creek group was the first formal for-mal notice given the metropolitan water board. I 100 Acres Mr. Melville explained the association asso-ciation embrace an area of more , than 1000 acre, with population of over 4000 persons. Backing of the chamber of commerce com-merce in the effort to obtain a favorable fa-vorable vote November U was voted by formal resolution of tha board d of governors Mondsy. . The chamber's Irrigation and drainage and municipal water sup-" sup-" ply committees were requeated t cooperate with tha metropolitan wa-o wa-o ter board in development of a plan n which will guarantee the approval , of the board's program for tha Deer creek project |