Show Let Ei Em let Eu Em i quawk kD That's The Wy ay Tunnel Five and a half Miles Long To ToT T Take ke Duchesne waters Head-waters Into Provo River is the Second Step in inThe inThe inThe The Gr Great at Basin Project t Repetition lion tion of Strawberry Grab At last that Great Basin project project project pro pro- data is given out to the thc press although it has been accumulating ing for several years and the plan has bc been n nurtured for fifteen fifteen teen to twenty years by Salt Lake City to take Uintah Basin water into Salt Lake drainage If doing that were all aU this area area would not have the urgent duty of complaining But to accomplish the purpose there appears ample grounds for the statement that our Uintah Basin is deliberately held back so that this water the life blood of arid lands may be bet betaken betaken t taken ken without expense Around us we see sufficient evidence of the plan Salt Lake Lalee City and environs are to ha have vc nearly fifteen million dollars that is if the 5 51 mile tunnel may be bored through the Wasatch for few But will accept this estimate for such sucha a tunnel as fair because experience experience ence teaches us that that tunnel will cost more likely The project is divided per the press into two viz the initial and the ultimate The first has much to do with the Deer Creek dam or as it should be said the Provo canyon dam This will mean eliminating the railroad railroad rail rall road in that canyon and back backwater backwater water up nearly to Heber City and make a scenic highway likely around Mount A canal now more or less made from the Weber into the Provo will help Another canal is to go around the foot hill country and deliver water over nearly to the Ft Douglas Douglas' campus from this reservoir But this ultimate phase of it means taking Duchesne river water water water wa wa- ter the head water just as head Strawberry water was taken talen That filing made by Salt Lake City in 1929 on Duchesne river head water water wa wa- wa- wa ter for fifty second feet gives about acre feet in the plan planas as the Duchesne rivers river's tion This addition is quite a little little little lit lit- tle when we remember that Salt Lake City today has bas only acre feet of storage water ater or that this river is to give that city nearly seven times as much water as it has stored today You may see why Salt Lake City has an eleven year program program program pro pro- gram eh This is just an adjunct of the plan initiated when the I Strawberry was as taken into Utah Lake Lale Both plans are primarily Urban water storage propositions After getting getling that Strawberry deal over Utah vas was mighty good for a I long time not asking for a cent for reclamation while every other arid state got its many millions To get this big deal through Utah will have to wink its left eye as it were and be good for another good period That all makes for long delay in getting this basin reclaimed or in securing securing securing ing help for more than Moon lake a good banking g investment Such Sucha a program justifies such statements statements statements state state- ments as that written by Ralph R. R Wooley V Senior U. U S. S Hydraulic ic Engineer indicating that most of this arid land will wait until the remote future Thank the tho Lord we have water out in this basin even if politicians and business leaders are against us We Ve could let Salt Lake City have some head waters and not feel that we had been robbed if we got any consideration But it means more waiting Even our forested area effected eastward to Moon lake is to be that famous famous famous fam- fam fam fam- ous primitive area prea we told you about several sC months ago You see sec fellow citizens Salt Lake Lalee City we believe also has a filing on Rock creek creel for acre feet or more than the head Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne waters included in this ultimate deal Is it not amusing Ultimate plan It should be stated as the big steal plan The question before this basin basin basin ba ba- ba- ba sin is how long are we going to passively submit to this kind of robbery as it is morally If not so in law It means holding this Blue Bench Pleasant Valley Castle Castle Castle Cas Cas- tle Peak Leland Bench the old New Hope or acres of goodland good goodland goodland land for sheep range until the remote future Can you see why Uncle Jesse Knight got control of considerable of the Blue B Bench And why little has been done with it iti 7 And less indicated for the near future Why did Salt Lake City not even een notice Uintah Basin citizens who attended the railroad hearing in that t city two years ago but gave the railroad magnates a banquet There is only one way that will give us a chance What is it 7 The answer is simple Tell our fellow citizens in the cow counties counties counties coun coun- ties and in Salt Lake Lake City just what has been done and this program program program pro pro- ultimate that gram that is so as a matter of political strategy such a word is selected There are many people in this tills state who will demand elementary justice Knowledge of the facts spread out over our state will insure this tilis lIt It seems our only recourse |