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Show Congress Gets Irrigation Bill Bpoehvl to Th Telegram WASHINGTON. Jan. 4-Author-zing completion of the Investigation Investiga-tion of the proposed Colorado liver-Great Basin irrigation project proj-ect . bill calling for an appropriation appro-priation of $75,000 Thursday had been Introduced Into the senate by Senator William H. King and In the house by Representative J. W. Robinson. Senator King also I expected to lntrodue a bill authorizing th appropriation ap-propriation of $10,000,000 tor th construction of small reservoir In all parts of th west. A special act of congress several years ago authorized the reservoirs, but to th present tun no fundi havs been voted. Th Colorado river project bill directs the secretary of Interior to Investigate the engineering feasibility feas-ibility and estimated cost of constructing con-structing this project which would tor and divert, to th western part of th state 1,500,000 acre feet of water taken from rivers on th eastern watershed. |