Show I I I I i I I I I I M MOVE 0 V f REVIVES G GREEN fN IVf r Land Commissioner Spry Gets Promise of Provided State Will Give a Similar Amount T THE HE revival of the Green River reclamation project to reclaim acres of the richest land in the state which has been hanging fire for years I is j 1 again ain in earnest according to Joseph H. H Rayburn general secretary I of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce I I just lust back from Washington U. U S. S Land Commissioner William Spry former former former for for- mer governor of Utah has secured the tentative promise of or from Secretary Secretary Sec See of the Interior Interior Albert Albert Fall to be used in a survey of the project if a alike alike like amount can be raised by the state of or Utah President C. C B. B Hawley l of the tWe chamber of commerce was in conference con con- ference today with Governor Charles CharlesI con I R. R Mabey on this angle of the sitio and there seems no doubt that the money will be forthcoming MOST VALUABLE In the opinion of engineers and parin particularly particularly par par- in that of Ralf R. R Woolley hydraulic engineer of the water re reI resources resources re- re sources branch of the U. U S S. S geological survey there is no more feasible or more valuable reclamation proposition in the West than the Green River project project in hi Utah It involves In the building of a huge dam on the Green river but insures an amplitude of water to irrigate irrigate irrigate gate a vast tract which will make homes for thousands on land said to tob tobe tobe b be be- beof of great potential richness There are no engineering difficulties to be overcome o and if the proposed survey is made the proposition will undoubtedly be made a part of the reclamation reclamation reclamation rec rec- program to conic come up before the next congress WAIT FOR CAPITAL This work has been under private enterprise for a number of years The sponsors of the idea have never ne been able to raise the money necessary and andin andIn andIn I in the meantime the reclamation servIce servIce service ice has stood aside waiting for such I private capital to assert itself It is understood that the private owners I have definitely abandoned the project and have signified their willingness that the government should go ahead Mr Woolley who is now In Washington Washington Wash ash ashington ington assured Mr Rayburn that there can be no further doubt but that the Green river project is now very much alive alive- and will be no longer allowed to apse lapse I |