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Show .water project plah advanced by new group Colorado River Great Basin Development Envisioned Aiming at realisation of what would be one of the weat's greatest reclamation Bra leers, tha Colorado River-Great Basin Water User as aodatlon hsd been formed In Sail Lake City Tueiday. Primarily, th new assoclatloi will function to promote th pro posed Colorado river-great basin project, which would tap Utah'i share of the river and bring new water to at least 600,000 acres li this stats. It was organized, however, s thst it msy act as tha contractini agency to deal with tha federal government in construction of thi project. In the same manner thai . th Provp River WaterUer' as sociation functions in the Deei creek project Officers, Directors Named Articles of Incorporation were adopted and officers and directon were named at a meeting Monday afternoon at tha Newhous hotel, sttended by representatives of It counties, the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern Utah and state officials, offi-cials, Ora Bundy, former mayor ef Ogden and president of the Ogden River Water Users' association, was elected president of th new association. asso-ciation. Other officers are: Frank G. Martines, Richfield, flrit vies president: George D. Clyde, Logan, second vie president; presi-dent; H. M. Chamberlain. Salt Lake City, treasurer: P. J. Purcell, Sslt Lake City, comptroller; F. H. Richardson, Rich-ardson, Sslt Lake City, secretary. Representative Choeea Although repreientatlve of IS countie attended the meeting, because be-cause of the fact that only those counties which would receive water from the project could subscribe to hares, directors were selected from the 12 counties In that category. Provision was made for directors at large, to permit representation of other counties In case future studies show they would benefit directly di-rectly by the project. Directors representing th 12 counties ars: Mr. Clyde, Cache: Orson Chris-tensen. Chris-tensen. Box Elder; M. E. Lundberg. Duchesne; Russel Hawkins, Juab; William Pace, Millard; T. W. Jensen, Jen-sen, Sanpete: Frank G. Eastman, Tooele; J. W. Gillman and County Commissioner Sylvan W. Clark, Utah; L. P. Christensen, Uintah; Mr. Bundy and County Commissioner Commis-sioner W. R. McEntire, Weber; County Commissioner J. R. Rawlins Raw-lins and County Attorney Harold B. Wallace, Salt Lake; E. H. Street, Sevier. Directors at Large Directors at large, representing Industrial and economic Interests, are: Dr. Franklin 8. Harris, president of Brighsm Toung university; William Wil-liam Peterson, director of the Utah Stat Agricultural college extension service; Mr. Martines, member of th executive board of th Associated Associat-ed Civic Club of Southern Utah; D. D. Moffat, vie president and general manager of the Utah Copper Cop-per company; J. Reuben Clark Jr., first counselor In th first presi- dency of th L. D. S. church; Ward C Holbrook, president of th Utah Stat Farm Bureau federation; Iceland Ice-land H. Kimball, engineer for the metropolitan water district of Salt Lake City; Blair Richardaon, a director di-rector of the metropolitan water district; F. H. Richardson and Mr. Purcell. An executive committee was named as follow: Mr. Bundy, Mr. Martines, Mr. Clyde. J. Reuben Clark Jr, Mr. Moffat, Mr. Jensen and F. H. Richardson. Rich-ardson. Harold E. Wallace waa named cx officio member and legal adviser. The committee will meet at the Newhouae hotel at 2 p. m. Friday. Meanwhile, it will consider a proposed pro-posed amendment to the Boulder dam act which, some quarter hold, would deprive Utah of a fair ahare of Boulder dam power revenue in favor of California. Th committee is expected to take a stand for or against th proposed amendment. |