Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-29 | Page 2 | Watershed Contract Has a Handle on It

CONTRACT HAS A HANDLE ON IT ITI II 11 I SIgned Mn rn Lose rAS Matthews His Job But May foy bo Closed Anyway Frank Matthews city land and water commissioner foner Is busier thana a hen lisZt with i two broods of chicks He Ho is 15 trying to toIVO save IVO his Job and the tho way he helM Is going about It Is to stew and fret and bluster about the danger which threatens threaten him and his entourage of ot assistants If It tho the proposed contract with the forest service servIce service ice Is signed which will wi give g the tile fed federal federal eral oral government tho the supervision of or tho the city watersheds In ln City Creek and Parleys canyons If I this contract Is II signed Frank Fank will wl be bo out of a Job for forthe forthe forthe the government forest to rl t service will wi undertake the tle supervision of the water watersheds watersheds watersheds sheds as a part of or the tho Wasatch forest reserve and will wI do so with wih Its own rangers for which the tho city however Is 15 Isto isto to share the expense A conference was held this morning mom Ins between Mayor faor Bransford Councilmen Holley Hohley Holey and A F P Dormus Doremus and R H R V Reynolds Renolds of the forest leo ice with headquarters wih In Ogden In Parleys canyon the city hay hn farm ar is located and tho tim caro care of o this has been chief object in life 10 even If 1 the tho farm has ha been ben a failure as a an agricultural and financial proposition Tho The forest service has planted trees on five acres of or this farm aria and the city cl will wi pay pa for or them as ns it will wi pay pa for tor all al other trees planted on en city property If I tho the forest service is charged with the control of this with Its It other ather por the tho federal rangers will wi take care of or It I and there will wi be a n city land and water commissioner with no land and no water to commission Naturally Matthews when not In a brown study stud is In a a blue one and when not In either IQ is very busy bus trying to make mao city cly Il Ind 1 tho 1 mfr 1 proposition from his own o viewpoint This probable blow at his means of a livelihood Frank believes beloes comes conies rather abruptly as ai a tho the mayor has ha his Intention of reappointing him to the position he ho has occupied for several s veral years under tho the American regime It I Is believed to be quite likely like I how however however ever that the contract with wih the forest service will be bG signed with ih some altera aler ton in its present form torm Mr 11 Reynolds Reynol represents that federal supervision would bo ho b a great groat benefit to the city The first proposal for federal control or of these watersheds was wn made by L C Kelsey Kelse when city engineer several years ears ago and was wa favorably acted acte on by the city cU council counci t