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Show ratt ipat Utah Well Prepared For -j yi Reservoir Program Says John Page Utah is more nearly ready than any other state to make use of funds appropriated for small reservoir construction, according to a statement made in Washing-'in. Washing-'in. D. C. this week by U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Commis-sioner Commis-sioner John C. Page. Work could begin on 19 proposed pro-posed reservoir sites in various parts of Utah as soon as plans md specifications have been ap-foved ap-foved by the Secretary of the '"terior. Quoting from a Washington '-n dispatch Mr. Page said: "Utah is in better shape than any we to avail itself of this applanation, ap-planation, for it has 19 projects "sich have been developed by the rate engineer, and so far as his Cl''ice is concerned work would ecnmenee immediately on any of 'f 19. "United States Reclamation en- ' fwrs have been checking plans making independent investiga-- investiga-- on all but four of these Pwts", the dispatch continued, :)i in no instance has any pro-K pro-K in any state been approved ! IV secretary". lie 19 projects proposed by the !;,e engineer for construction are t'lsidered the most feasible and Weal of 600 possible sites in ' which were investigated by is estimated that between "e and seven million dollars has n earmarked in Washington ''building of small reservoirs in 'Continued on page three) Utah Well Prepared For Small Reservoir Program Says John Page (Continued from first page) the west, if recommendations of the budget bureau and President Roosevelt are carried out. The bureau recommended that congress appropriate $2,600,000 for that purpose, and President Roosevelt recommended that work on the projects be done as far as possible by WPA labor. Under this plan the appropriation made by congress would be used for materials and the labor would be paid out of WPA appropriations. Utah is desirous of obtaining at least $1,000,000 this year to begin her program of small reservoir construction, and a million dollars annually for the next four years : m order to complete it. Senator William H. King, together to-gether with Representatives Abe Murdock and J. Will Robinson. Monday appealed to the senate appropriations committee to raise the small reservoir appropriation from 52,600,000 to 5,000,000. The Utah delegation contended the program could be speeded up i if that amount were provided and matched by funds from WPA for labor. They told the committee of Utah's need for additional water to be used on lands already developed, de-veloped, and added that more than 60,000 persons would benefit directly from the program. The decision of the appropriations appropria-tions committee is expected to be made known within a few days, according to word received from 1 Washington. The preferred list of 19 projects investigated by State Engineer T. . H. Humpherys and ready for approval ap-proval include: Three Creeks. Beaver county; Lower Beaver Narrows and enlargement of the Newton reservoir, Cache county-rebuilding county-rebuilding of Scofield reservoir and construction of the McDonald 1 and Waterous reservoir, Carbon county; enlargement of East , Canyon reservoir, Morgan and Davis counties; Lower Joes Valley and Millers Flat sites, Emery county; New Castle and Hamilton's Hamil-ton's Fort sites, Iron county; ' Woodruff Creek No. 2, Rich county; Gooseberry site, Sanpete county; Brush Creek site. Uintah county; Ash Creek No. 1, Enter- , . prise No. 2, Big Kolb Creek, Pine Valley sites, Washington county: Thurbor (Bicknell Bottoms). : Wayne county, and Bally Watts. Weber county. |