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Show i BIG RESERVOIR PROJECTS ARE DIS- ' I CUSSED-WATER USERS FAVOR UNITY I ' " jEf ' Hold Meetings at Capitol and Decide to Work Out Flans IjPi For Storage of Water Private Funds to Build Reser- IM voirs if U. S. Aid I? Withheld Means Much to Cedar IjK ' ' Valley if Project Goes Through. Ilrjj Tvui meetings hnvo been held this IIH week In Salt I-ako In nn effort to lllfl I ring about the conservation nnd III - storago of the flood wntora of tho 111 Provo nnd the Wobor rivers, nnd It 111 appeared that tho water-users of Uio 111 I'i-ovo river nro In fatonorconstrue- II J Ion by themselves of a'reservoir at 1 19 tho Bates site, or nt some other Bult- IjH nolo locality, capable nt this tlmo or conserving a wntor supply of 20,000 I J I or 30,000 acre feet and that tho wall wa-ll cr.UEors of tho Weber river probab-1'iyV probab-1'iyV ly would find that tho best thins ready I j nt hand for them o do was to con-Hi con-Hi f ft met a 'reservoir at Echo capable II of holding some 60,000 acre feet. Tills HI I sentiment wna exprca3od by soverul HI J tpcakers nnd Intlmitcd by otliors. Hit Howovor It vm not adopted into for-HI for-HI rial resolutions nn.t In responB to HI worda of warning against tlelng them-Hl them-Hl Helves up to tiny ono particular pro. HI Ject without investigating, tho irri-Hl irri-Hl gators decided that the thing to do HI v.-oult! bo for tho representatives from HH each of the seven counties proeeat to HH ascertain Just whpt the water users HH of that county nro willing to do and HI to present the lilow at a Inter mcct- HHJ The nlm of nil tho rroetlngs Is to HHJ jret unity of effort In whatever (a done IHHH for tho conservation of tho flood valors of thoso two great rlvr sys-lems, sys-lems, so Important to such a large majority ma-jority of ,tho people of the stnto. Whether thin ahull bo dono by pm- HJl nrr-clng thlfwholo Into ono big pro- HHJ ' Jcct'or shell bo divided Into several HH ttcpnrate projects' was the renj Ph- HHJ 1cm bcforol'tho meetings, end It has HHm not yet beorusolvod. Hl Tho.. meetings Jthls week, follow-. HHb jnr; nnigotiiijfot representative wnlor- HHb j -users and buBlneii men July. 19, nt the' Hi " fJ l'latoH reiioK'oIr b1(6. " SeMfiVcountfu.1! Hl ' -wore repreacntcd Including tho north- H' rn cnil of Utah county. Salt Inku, HHJ llavla, Wcbor, Morgan, Sunmmlt nnd HHl HHJ One of tho tliout;hts nt tho meeting H was that tho Wober river water uxors f.liniilil go nhond wth the Echo roser- H voir and tho Provo water users with HH tho proposed reBervo'r on tlio llnto H iito. Mr. Murdock thought If this HI should not provo to bo too largo n H tnU, It might bo the best plan for tin. M luudlatn stopo to ho tnkonrTlio nuos- M tin then vain r.s to wliethur It would M lie ndvlsablo to orgmlzo Into somo M mrt of a unit for tie posslblo jiurpoHo B of bringing tho two projecto, which B could easily bo unltod Into ono, to H tho attention of the United States gov- HHj orument, for partlolpntlon In tho sol- M , i!lcr settlement or reclamation sar. HHt funds. i" Should It bo doomed Inadvlwiblo to wnlt for government action, which at best nocmod problematical, It wns sug-gep.tcd sug-gep.tcd thnt It mlsht not bo found , fin-ilblo for tho two reservoirs to bo HHJ constructed r.t tho nemo tlmo by In-H In-H , doperdeut Interests, nnd In that event H both rlvors might join In building B them ono nt r. time, and divert wntor H from ono system to tho other nbovo H tho site of tho proposod reservoir. H ' Work Out Plans HHU Some of theso altcrnrtlvcs, Mr. Mur- H dock thought, ought to bo worked H out, and In any event tho lamltf now 11 under tho two rlvem nnd In many B casus under canals that hnvo an In. l ruIUclont supply of water should bo H first considered, Then, ir this wero HHB ranted through nttontlon mlcht be HHD riven, ho said, to carrying water to HHl Cedar Valley nnd over to Tooelo. lint HHl this latter proposltl'm, ho urged should HHJ b ar independent project and should HHVJ not be mado a part of, nor n fmantl.il HHVj burden on tho project to bring waters HHYj to tho soven counties directly lutcr- HHmI ested In tho two river systems. HHVj On tho other hand William U. Will- HIV Inco, reproFontlng (ho supporters of HHV the Utah Conservation company plan, HHV urged that the wholo project bo plan- HHpJ ued In n big way, in order thnt by co. HHV operation of all Interests the thing HHH could bo dono right and at ontu. Ho HHJ, F.aid that tho cntiro project could' be HHTJl accomplished for 10,000,000 and that HHl intllloiiH of iiolln-3 are running to I waste annually in thb territory that H 4)uld bo served by tho two river sya- HHVJi tenm. HHh Mr. Murdock anuounood that a rep- HHVJ r'JHcutatlvo meeting ofjcnnal compan- HIV ' HHH i HHH BJ ""T i J l's nlong the I'rovo, meeting nt Ho. bcr Monday night, hnd nuthorlzd him to say that If thcro were no necessity or desire for co-operr.tlpn, tho Vrovo river Interests would go nhoad anyway any-way with tho coirtrvctlon 'of 'the Hates resorvolr site. Engineers to Collect Data J. I.. Lytel, dUlrlct rccnlntlon puglnccr for the federal government, nnd George F. McClour.glu, stnto engineer, en-gineer, wero authorized by the com. mlttoe to proceed with tho collection of engineering dnti on tho projacts, and to employ such help as required for the work. The committca desires to get ns much accurate Information ns posslblo on the proponed projects within tho next thirty days in order that complete Information mi bo presented to tho Interior dept. and tho rpproprlatiomt committee of congress con-gress In the, eve nt tho Mondell aojdler settlement bill Is passed. Tho committee com-mittee proposes to work for tho development de-velopment of theso projects ns sol. dler settlement project, providing the dnta shows thnt such u course 1h foaslblo, but to build them by private pri-vate capital If they cannot tm con-rtrutccd con-rtrutccd by federal nld. Fund is Planned W W. Armstrong, president of tho National Copper bank of. Salt Lake, wrh appointed chairman pf a ffnnnco committee yhlch is to t-prapleto rals-inag rals-inag 11.000 fund to bo used in dc. fraying the, expenses of tho work, finjt T.nko county !jco been nsslgned to rn'so $r,0O0; Wehor county, 2000; Tooele, Utah nnd iUv.i counties J1000 cccli; W'jwatcli and Summit counties, ?C0O oath and Morgan founty.250. . , t i-' p -Mm |