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Show WIIY IS MOON LAKE LEFT OUT? o The Public Works administration administra-tion we learn has approved two of five reclamation projects recommended recom-mended for Utah, namely the Hyrum and Ogden Canyon projects. pro-jects. The other projects have been reacted, or at least left out on the "grounds that incompleted negotiations over water-rights and engineering would not. permit their immediate adoption. In contradiction con-tradiction of this assertion is the report of our own state emergency administration of public works, just handed to Governor Blood for his consideration, and recommend ing that all five of the major projects, pro-jects, all of which have been approved ap-proved by the U. S. Reclamation bureau be included in the program. pro-gram. They assert that the Moon Lake and Deer Creek projects could be commenced immediately If funds .were available, and. the Sanpete project could be started within 60 days. We do not know which is correct, but would be willing to give the men on the job; here at home, the benefit of being better posted than the administration administra-tion at Washington. We are glad to see the two projects pro-jects approved come to Utah, and commend Senator King, and Secretary Sec-retary Dern for their efforts but we feel that the Uintah Basin should also leceive its share of these funds. We have no latge factories or enterprises here, no payrolls to be swelled by the effects of the N. R. A. and we all hoped that the Moon Lake project could be approved to give us som much needed employment, and improved im-proved conditions on the lands irrigated under it. . |