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Show U. S. Prepares to Call for Construction Bids Within Week on Deer Creek Water Pro ject WORK-SLATED TO BEGIN BY EARLY SPRING ' - First Tenders Will Cover Dam, Road and Railway Bids for construction of the Deer creek reclamation project will be advertised within a week, John C. Page, U. S. commissioner commission-er of reclamation, said here Saturday. Sat-urday. steading bark to Washington, D. C, after s weatera awing which soded with dedieatiaa program at BeaMer dam Friday, Mr. Pag arrived Saturday maroing aad aria leave for Denver la th evening. eve-ning. With tha calling for bids due shortly, construction will begin by early spring. It appeared. Mr. Page explained that contractors contrac-tors will ba given SO day to prepare pre-pare tender and th contract will be awarded within three weeks from opening of bids. ftf ftM Band Conatructloa mutt begla within a month after awarding of a contract. "First bids requested will cover tha actual construction of tha reservoir, reser-voir, realignment- of th railroad track In Frovo canyon and construction construc-tion of new highway Immediately adjoining th dam," Mr. Page said. "We hav $1780,00 already an hand to atart construction and there It every reason to believe that ample am-ple funds will be provided to carry on tns program aa needed." Action on th $4,000,000 Salt Lake City aqueduct from the reservoir will follow when the reservoir portion por-tion Is under contract, Mr. Pag Indicated. In-dicated. Aqueduct to Follow "We have not yet taken definite action on tha aqueduct," he aald. "W have concentrated on getting tha reservoir under way and, once it la off our minds, w will be In a position to atudy th aqueduct Mr. Page explained It would require re-quire another year to complete plana and a Dedications for tha Du-cheene Du-cheene tunnel portion of the project, although a survey already has located lo-cated the bore. Th commissioner conferred with E. O. Larson, district reclamation engineer, and J. R. Alexander, district dis-trict counsel, en progress in reclamation recla-mation bureau work In tha state. Mr. Page expressed particular pleasure st tha overwhelming way In which Salt Lake City property taxpayer favored city participation in th Deer creek project Project Conaldered Ha disclosed surveys are being made to investigate the Green river-Bear river-Bear river diversion project. In ; northern Utah, and tha proposed Gooseberry reservoir and tunnel In , Sanpete county, to determine their feasibility. "We are cooperating,' he aald, "in , a survey of a number of small res- , ervoir sites in Utah, continuing , work begun by the state water stor- , age commission." L |