Show DIXIE DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT I PROJECT SQUELCHED A special dispatch to the Salt Sait Lake Tribune seems to sound the death knell to the Dixie Development project project project pro pro- on the Virgin river at least as asfar asfar as far as obtaining federal money to finance the project The project if completed would have been of great Importance not Just to Washington county but to all of southern Utah The dispatch dated July 21 is as follows follows follows fol fol- lows Secretary Ickes as public works ad administrator ad- ad Just before leaving for his vacation Informed Sam King at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney for the Dixie Land and Development Development Development Devel Devel- company and brother of Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator King that the public works ad administration administration aJ- aJ ministration will not approve the Dixie Irrigation project in southern Utah and will advance no money for its construction The announcement of the secretary was most emphatic and indicated that the board had finally considered the project is understood to have had the the- indorsement of ot the head of the engineering department and had flatly rejected it Some weeks ago alO Secretary Ickes announced that P W A would approve approve approve ap ap- prove no loans for irrigation projects that bringing new land into cultivation But King and WU W WlIam lIam llam B. B Slack promoter of the Dixie project persisted in their efforts and finally forced the issue with the re result result result re- re sult above stated The Dixie project as a P W A project is definitely out according to Mr Ickes |