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Show . UTAH FIDDLES-WHILE FIDDLES WHILE - THE OTHER COLORADO COLORADORIVER COLORADORIVER RIVER STATES GET THE WATER . - . ' . . - . - - - - Although it has been mOle mOlethan molethan mpie mpieColorado than 15 years ago Since thewas the theColorado wasColorado compact wasentered was wasstates Colorado river nver compactte entered basinentered mto into bysates by the te basm basin basmstates yet has no noprogram noprogram noprogram states sates Utah as program for Utilizing utIlIzmg titilizmg its lts share shareof shareof shareof of theater the \ water \\ater ater of the river rJVer rJVerOfflclal riverOfficial riverOfficial Official Offlclal Utah-WhICh Utah WhICh Utah - which means meansSalt meansOgdenfor meansSalt Salt Lake City Phas Provo and andOgdenfor andOgden Ogden-for Ogden for OgdenforearsProvo - for , ) earsProvo ears has been beenflddlmg beenfiddling beenfiddling flddlmg fiddling around with grandIose grandi grand granditransmountam ' ose f1r-fetched f1r fetched fir-fetched fir - - schemes lor for fortransmountaln lortransmountam transmountam transmountaln diversion of ofColorado ofColorado ofColorado Colorado river rlver water to cen central central central tral Utah areas contiguousstate contiguous to tothe tothe the state capital Anff And offlC111 offlC111Utah officnlUtah ei'I eiI ei'IUtah ' Utah is 15 still shIl frittering fnttering away awayvaluable awayvaluable awayvaluable valuable time hme and the tupa- tupa tupaers ta to rpal- rpal rpalers pai-ers pai ers : ) - ers good money jn m an a seUlsh selfish selfishand seUlshand selfishand and completely sectional seetIonal plan planfor planfor planfor for d1 diverting dl\ertmg dl ertmg \ erting the water of ofGreen ofGreen ofGreen Green river to areas west of ofthe ofthe ofthe the Wasatch mountainsRight moun mountains mountainsRight tams tamsRIght Right now the Central Utah UtahproJect Utahproject Utahproject proJect which adIIlJttedlY adnuttedly adIIlJttedlYwould adnuttedlywould admittedlywould would cost hundreds of mll mil millions mllhons millions hons lions of dollars ( Oust Just lust how howmany howmany howmany many hundreds nobody seems seemsto seemsto seemsto to know ) is 1S the falrhaJred fairhaired fairhairedbrainstorm falrhaJredbramstorm fairhairedbrainstorm bramstorm brainstorm of the boys in m the thecapitol thecapitol thecapltol capitol The engineering engineermg alone aloneon aloneon aloneon on this project would take takeyears takeyears takeyears years to completeAnd completeAnd complete completeAnd And m in the meantime other otherColorado otherColorado otherColorado Colorado river basin basm stateshave states stateshave stateshave have submitted submltted their programs programs pro igrams grams for maximum maXlmum uhllza utiliza utilizal tion hon of their share "of of 'of " ' * ol me the wa water water water ter and naturally naturaJly those st1tes suites st1teswIll suiteswill st-iteswill st iteswill - wIll be the ! first irst to receive con conslderahon consideration consideration slderahon sideration from the recIama reclama recIamahon reclamation rcclamation hon tion bureau By the time Utah Utahadopts Utahadopts Utahadopts adopts a feasible program programbased programbased programbased based on sound engineering engmeermg- engmeermg engineering- engineeringif engmeermgIf - if she ever does-It does It does - - it is f31rIy fairly f31rIycertam fairlycertain fairlycertain certam certain there won wont t be much muchwater muchwater muchwater water left foi the Beehivestate BeehIve BeehIvestate Beehivestate BeehivestateThe state stateThe The fact is that there are arescores arescores arescores scores of feasible reclamatIon reclamationprotects reclamationprojects proJects protects big and little httIe httle m In the theeastern theeastern theeastern eastern part of Utah in m addl add addlhon addition ' hon tion to the various vanous maior maJor hydroelectnc bydroelectric hy by ' dro-electnc dro electnc dro-electric electric - - proJectsHundreds protectsHundreds projects protects projectsHundreds Hundreds of thousands of ofacres ofacres ofacres acres of good land conhguous contiguous contiguousto conhguousto to the Colorado river and Its ItstrIbutarIesnot itstributariesnot itstributaries trIbutarIes-not trIbutarIes not - not a hundred or ormore ormore ormore more miles IDlles rules dIstant-are dIstant are distant - are lymg lying lymghere lyinghere lyinghere here waiting waltlng for waterWhy waterWhy water waterWhy Why in m the name of heavercan heaveit heaver heaveitcan heaven-can heaven can - can t our officials who are areempowered areempowered areempowered empowered to act for the thestate thesate thestate state sate in m nn the Colorado rIver rIvermatter rivermatter rivermatter matter give glVe a little conslder consider conslderahon consideration consideratlon ahon ation to eastern Utah pro proJ proJects projects0 ] . ects ects7 ects0 ? ects7Wouldn ects0Wouldn Wouldn t a more properousmore properous properousmore properousmore more populous eastern Utah Utahbe Utahbe Utahbe be of some value to the state0Does state9 state state0 state9Does ? Does every plan for devel development development development opment of Utah have to cen center center center ter around the are area aret ' ! . in m the v VI VIdmty vicimty ' dmty dnity of Salt Lake 1ake , City ? ' ' ' |