Show reclamation ablation abia tion up for discussion state engineer Engine ei 11 R ll E caldwell and chairman wallace of thatah water st storage ge commission held a meeting at the t a court house monday forenoon with the couty county commissioners and the officials of tho the tooele thoele valley irrigation company the purpose of the meeting was to obtain a pledge from our local officials for the development of definite de finate reclamation t projects in the state the following resolution as brought before the utah water storage commission explain the i purpose of the isalt to our ur county by caldwell and wallace A resolution commissioner W W Arni armtrong Arn trong strong moved that uie utah water storage Coin commission mission ask chairman wallace anal and state Efi engineer gincer caldwell with engineer green associated to represent the commission and meet with the county commissioners and such influential citizens citi zons as the county commissioners may desire in each of the counties of morgan weber divis tooele thoele salt lake utah summit and wasatch counties and obtain from them definitely a pledge of their support for the development d first of the utah county projects and th the a challe chalk creek reservoir on the weber t river iver system and 1 ater aler the ibe devilo development t of the other units of the great grea salt lako lake basin projects as they bo be acamo P ca ma feasible and adf possible ible V the thor tl fou tiie the K and the fol letter was wa 8 addre addressed sied to senator reed smoot by the county com missioners ners and the thoele tooele valley ir company officials hon reed smoot U S senator from utah washington D C idear dear senator smoot IV we re are in heartiest accord with the th a oi go e and aid with lh the water wan S storage commission lo 10 secure non laon interest bearing U S reclamation funds funa for the development of utah reclamation projects to end we ve pledge you yo U the support of our influence and p best endeavor to secure repayment co contracts from water us users ers with ithe US government isa asa guarantee for the building b by the government of odthe mhd units of the great salt saif lake basin atif project 0 je et as investigations g show them to be possible and feas feasible ilfe at the present time we pledge e you our unqualified support as abaye expressed egied for ahe ih e building of the utah lake units n and the chalk creede reservoir on the weber river system which will 44 require an expenditure of fun funds d s af pf of approximately we are V very sincerely yours yours peter clegg i G M matthews Matth ewi 0 P C gillett w county commissioners C alv alvan in orme pres 1 W S marks S secy e c 1 R D Ifal halladay laday abst secy beci R R judd i chas R mcbride i 8 T carman J W and anderson ron dr daj J A apopp I 1 phipps t tooele thoele valley vailey irrigation company there is no need of denying the fact after the discussions at the meeting that tooele thoele valle VaIe Is on the tail end of this reclamation pla plan aria and i only when the lands nearer the supply of water are reclaimed I 1 will our county stand any show whatever of I 1 getting gott ipg water onto its ita land f it is figr figured cdon on the utah lako lake pro eject that land and in in the vicinity of south salt lake valley and taylors villa can be put under irrigation at cost of same some 40 per acre while those who make this abis est estimate imite state that tooele thoele valley will pay per are acre for theA the samer ame water right wo wd cannot consistently expect that the water v a air P projects will be rushed to this valley over lands which can be reclaimed gaimel it at less than one fourth the mat cost 1 I 4 this should not fiot hinder us however in giving ar our full support to the states reclamation plans for even aurally tooele thoele county will receive her bar desires on reclamation j only yesterday word was given given out bythe bytha government that a prof eject in idaho planning to ir acres of land had leen been turned down because the cost would a i amount to per acre f the dimois apparently not ripe for I 1 expensive reclamation projects project a |