| Show ora GET ORE GOOD IS the bouse house committee on bublie laid bae has mada a favorable report ou an the enate senate bill by the upper of congress fo nerce november 3 at last granting gr antic certain land lands to the iown town of utah viah for the protection of its water supply the biu bill permits the casing of Q coal lands and within the water te ree erve serve but late that boeh such lande lands ahall be b so 0 o ie de as to not impair the water supply the tile bill it Is favorably indorsed by the he of the interior wha its it passage in a letter la in he gah it Is i my understanding that tile utah fuel company has the town of let utah in w with ith il it i coal mining inter casts ats and in order to furnish furni elt a sat ea tifai tory municipal water apply has ex some in con a a pumping station of range a creek and ju in building a pipe line about four mile miles in length from the pumping station to the town the company haa has acquin ed a onside considerable rable area of the drainage basin of range creek above the pumping an 0 station et atlon and ii Is thui able to provi ie le protection to the water ater imply Il ply it le lelice alres however brough the mod med iura of this bill to rovil means cherel y the of t the h e dral it age laala above the pumping rf station may bo ba poli ettl in ili r to i contamination of f the u tho ali cetire water supply enterprise ia Is a common lable ore one nn I 1 Affect il a joel community with a of about 00 alie at ilin of at rangi erkd 1 IK is rather mountainous in lit character er an I 1 it 1 of little except for fill glaring A I 1 T tb areek k itself ha has abue value as a source of wafer for tuk aul a portion of it affected by t fie lle lil 1111 under bonsi ler atlon has been 1 In cladd in bolice water wice perilee I 1 it is ii my opinion however jbv ite its value for a municipal water supply materially exceed exceeds any possible poe pos aible value as a a source of water for stock 0 1 with th respect to mineral minerals the land laud has value both for coal and for oil bale shale the utilization of the oil hale shale would require surface operation operations that would be incompatible with the pro lection of the water for rauni cipal purposes however Ilo wever in view of the fact that there are ex tenie ie de po lowita ta of oil bald shale in the tho unite I 1 state an ant I 1 that they ore are not 1 leing eln devel aped aul use bael on a large beale ale I 1 think that the tile ahal bolt I alue may be re karde garde I 1 a as negligible in ili c with the public ni In involved voled in this pro lection of tile water supply ef of the tile town of Hunny side the land lands are all believed boll eved to be underlain ui ferlain by valuable depolt depo Mt of coal sail a portion af of them ha has been ani tini valued ai coal lands tl tie e ao 10 of coal can call bent best be ile doni done through Kli tun enterlin anteri ig the ground west of the tile alasin if nt range creek and by an extension exten llon of the operations opera tiona of the utah fuel eom corn rany in the vicinity of f Hunny o 0 ille ie mining conducted in thie this wi we woul I 1 not affect adversely the thi uto us of the drainage basin of aa rang erek for municipal pal water supply purposes the bill as drawn prohibit prohibits all mineral as w well ell as sion mineral entry of U V e 0 land lands broin tie ti e foro fo re statement ik it will be he seen that the tile coil underlying the land couii be extracted will out interfering inter ferin with the purpose ies of the proposed reservation it may poi possibly sibly be desirable there fore to insert ft a provision pio vision Ision in the tile bill ehst ali it would permit the mining of coal under condition conditions pre ba b the sec see rotary of the interior with it e view t to 0 preventing any possible 1 alveree alverse effect effee t on the tho milici pai water how ilow ever since the bill 19 i drawn in lit the in crest terest of the utah fuel company and the community it ha has built up rill sineo this company woold would be the log cal eal of ench ouch a pw pro islan but ha has not suggested eu it I 1 am not to a 6 a A its incorporation in the bil 1 I therefore favorably tl ti y of the bill substantially in 1 it present form |
