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Show other Ian-'; add-: I, lh- burdens of' th' r '. 1 . .' L.-.'il the c--:i 4te;:ce i, 'iii- eri.lre ;,ort v.;.-: thi'-atened a,:-,i-d!!.g I.' , Mr. I lioyd. 'i 1 ( 1 !,:!! : ---pre- :r.U the ;: -I-:'-. ,-. nt i,f u.-f or. I .rc led with the : prej-;-!., bo;': a; hws arid as state j ,ri:.! ', a, d it U ;t..-.vrt-l that the s'-tli'-r v. hi be able to pay out un-! der the tei m of that bill. At the -ame time it is pointed out that water under the Piute contract, a--; originally signed, would cost more than under the Strawberry federal reclamation project, and the fact that the government found it advisable to grant, relief in Utah county is held to prove the necessity of more liberal tei ms of the Piute project Salina un. Piute Water Users Promised Relief Through the activities of Hon. S. M. .Jorgeir'.en, former representative represen-tative to the slate legislature- from Sevier county , and other rioted personages person-ages and ollieeis of the Piute Reservoir Res-ervoir &. Irrigation company, relief from the le-avy burden which has hurg over- the big irrigation project .since the building of the reservoir and formation of the company, is now i; sight. Mr. .Jorgensen has been at . ilt Lake fur the past ten days and '. dilations are that conditions will he - tahlished dialing the present ses-; ses-; mi of the legislature, whereby the . ti ler s under- the project will be able j i pay for their lands instead of ul-: ieving it to revert back as the prop-1 iity of the state. State Senator i H'. I), (,'andlaiid of Sanpete county,! and who was chairman of the state land board during 1019, has intro- i duced a bill that would amend the; ji.esent law, which was enacted in II 19, permitting the sale of the project. proj-ect. .Subsequent to the passage of the; law of 1919, the settlers on the proj-! eci, or a majority of them, organized1 inLo a company and took over the project management by purchase from the state. The law required 5 per cent interest on deferred payments. pay-ments. The ('midland bill would oin it such interest after May 1 next. The bill adds this proviso to the piosont law: j "No interest shall be charged af- j tei- May 1, 11125, and the total amount! of the principal unpaid and interest; earned and unpaid on May 1, 1925, j shall be the full balance due on the existing contracts of sale." This will mean, it is said, that the payments at present in arrears will be brought up to date, and afterwards after-wards the settlers under the project will pay about. $30,000 to $35,000 per annum for sixteen years, when the project will pass beyond the control of the state. The state, has invested in the project in actual cash about$l,015,000, according to figures furnished by the slate land commissioner, J. T. Old-royd. Old-royd. At the time of the original contract is was calculated about $330,-O'H) $330,-O'H) interest had accrued. The present pres-ent contract was effective May 1, HUH, and since that time about $100,-000 $100,-000 interest has been paid by the settlors, set-tlors, and about $35,000 additional interest in-terest has accrued on lands not in the company. Thus, in addition to the amount invested in the project, the state will receive under the terms of the bill a total of $450,000 to $475,-000 $475,-000 in interest. The state still owns about eleven-fifteenths of the project, the settlers having contracted to buy the remainder. Agricultural conditions have not been of the best since the contrr.ct - was signed, and of 15,780 acres of land originally sold, some 8000 acres have been cancelled. Since the contract con-tract was closed, there have been cancelled can-celled about 1000 shares of the water . ight for failure to pay maintenance .barges, while an assessment to pay n incipal in 1922 brought 2000 additional addi-tional cancellations. While some of the lands could pay out readily under tiie present contract as originally signed, the abandonment of shares by |