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Show i r I A MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923 THE PROVO POST THE TABERNACLE CHOIR PRESENTS the BEAUTIFUL OPERA r 66 TONIGHT ! V7L i TI AT Tomorrow Night j I MEAT The Finest of All Comic Operas I)ont Miss It! A ssesss: pressed his strong desire to get this project definitely before congress. D. W. Davis, former governor of Idaho and now assistant secretary of the interior, indicated to the Utah senator that, contingent on clearing up of details which should be out of the way by the next session of congress, the assistant secretary will recommend to congress the definite undertaking of the Provo-Webe- r project. It may be that initial work will be undertaken on the Weber end. The Weber river division of the Great Salt lake project as now outlined involves the construction of reservoirs on the Echo, Chalk creek, L6t creek and Magpie sites, and a distributing system involvrig a high line canal, the enlargement of the Davis and Weber counties canal, and construction and extension of various lateral systems. Senator Smoot could give but an hour and a half, to the meeting, being called away by another engagement. GovThe visiting federal officials. ernor Davis and Arthur P. Davis, director of the United States reclamation service, were taken on a trip over various features of the Utah lake division of the Provo-Webproject during the afternoon. In the evening they attended a meeting Lake Utah is Subject Ot Reclamation Study ""'A Use of Utah lake as a storage reservoir with an annual capacity of 540, 0(' 0 acre-fee- t; enlargement of tFe outlet at Jordan river to a capacity -- Af control of 1800 second-fee- t; floods in Salt Lake county by bringing the surplus canal up to J700 second-feet, are some of the possibilities which have been studied in the joint federal and state investigation of the Utah lake division of the Great Salt lake project. Prominent among the areas which might be brought under water with proper drainage or other features provided include: division of the Great Salt lake basin, no announcement is made as tc their feasibility. Facts have been assera-- j bled and are being assembled as to (their practicability from the financial in other words, a study viewpoint is being made to determine whether the costs of furnishing water to the land, including annual upkeep as well as construction costs, would be such that the land would produce enough additional to its present production to pay for the project. Een when this has been determined there remain other considerations, such as thfe condition of water rights and the attitude of the landowners themselves who will be benefited by the projeck. If the estimate of costs of the water on the land prove attractive, local organizations may handle other problems; and if the project finally is determined to be feasible in every way there still remains the problem of financing it which, under the present outlook, will involve an appropriation from the United States reclamation fund to be authorized bv congress. PROVO-WEBEDISCUSSED. Features of the Provo-Webproj- ect investigations, so far as they have gone, were discussed Saturday In Tooele valley, 24,000 acres. In the area west and southwest of Salt Lake City, 34,000 acres. In the vicinity of Lehi," 10,000 acres. At the south end of Utah lake, around Mosida, 14,000 acres. In Provo bay, a new area to be created by separating it from Utah lake by a dike, 8000 acres. These enumerated areas are not now irrigated or are irrigated in only a small way locally. It is calculated that there are tributary to the project some 170,000 acres, portions of which already have water rights of morning at a meeting at the state varying degrees of sufficiency. WOULD PROJECT PAY? capitol of federal and state reclamaBut, while these projects are being tion officials foA the information of Investigated as parts of the Utah lake Senator Reed Smoot, who has ex er of the Strawberry water R er j Spanish Fork. users i been (livid d into three divisions, aoh elite: ing on an important drainThe Utah lake division, age basininvolv ng the ultimate economic conservation oi the water supplies from the Provo and ail tributaries to Utah lake, and the Jordan river valleys; the Wete-- r division, including the Ogden river, and the Bear river division. Present at the meeting of Saturday were Assistant Secretary D. W. Davis. Director A. P. Davis and Mr. Green of the federal service; Senator Smoot. Secretary of State H. E. Crockett. R. E. Caldwell, state engineer; Chairman W. R. Wallace and Dr. R. R. Lyman and J. R. Murdock of the Utah water storage commission; T.JL. Allen of Coalville, former member of the Utah conservation student commission, and a long-tim- e of the Provo-Webproject; and er WERER RIVER DIVISION. In consideration of the Weber river division it was generally agreed that the next step would be the organization of the This was conceded to be a local problem and will probably be undertaken in the land-owner- s. near future under the general guid- ance of the state through its executive officers and the water storage commission. In the outline of the general at scheme of the engineerig problem, the question of waterlogged lands LAKE WATER SUPPLY. The present proposal, under an came up; and the thought was amendment to the original plan to thrown out that marshy and uninvestigate the Provo-Webproject, drained lands, such as are adjacent involves the investigation of the im- to Utah lake and Great Salt lake a part portant features of the water supply might appear to be virtually of the Groat Salt lake. This has of the lake, but that a survey would show such lands to be as much as six or sevn feet higher than the lake level. Such conditions can be cor- ted when drainage is provided to take the water off the lands. UTAH LAKE PROBLEM. Utah lake carries at compromise At point about 810,000 acre-fee- t. seven feet below compromise point the lake contains only 270,000 acre-feeThus, if the lake level is lowered seven feet every year by drawing off water for irrigartion purposes, it would render 540.000 acre-feavailable for such irrigation. This does not make any allowance for evaporation since under sucli a process the evaporation would certainly not be larger than the present estimated 350,000 acre-feper year. The 540.000 acre-fewould he) sufficient to supply the 170.000 ir-! rigable acres found tributary to the lake. To reach this entire arreage some' new canals would have to he built. 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