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Show PROPOSE TO STORE FLOW Of WATES OCDEN. June 19. A recluMllon project pro-ject tha will Involve aDproxlroatsIv tS.AOO.OOO Is In contemplation by Governor Gov-ernor Sonr. r. O. Mr Kay. A. F. Parsar and FYank W. Stratford. It la estimated that tha water to be Impounded for us In th summer montfis will be aufflilent to Irrlgme all the arid landa of Davis. Weber, nraan and Summit countlea It In t .lorstood that there la plentv of eastern -.ipltal hak of the plan and that If the project la determined to be feasible feasi-ble ihert- will be no delay In bullrilna: the reservoirs Under the direction of Surveyor T. J. AUen of Summit countv cnmnlMe surveys of ths Prvo and Welier streams have heen made and the exact quantity of surplus water measured. The t reams had near each other In the tops of the Wsjstrh rsrure of mountains to the. east of Salt Lake, the Weher flowln to Weher and Davis counties, trmvsrslna Hummlt and Moreno counties, and the Pmvo river flndlna Ita way to tha dry lands of I'tah county. The plan Is to build a huge reservoir, or a series nf reservoirs, to hold tha wa ters of tlie two streams that have not heretofore, been appropriated and nltllise them for power and Irrlicatlon purposes In the counties mentioned. |