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Show WATER OP WEBER' A giant project, involving the expenditure ex-penditure of $n,000,000 for the build-Ijie build-Ijie of a monster reservoir to divert tho floodwatrs of the Weber and Provo rivers and to reclaim thousands of acres of land in Weber, Davis and Utah counties, is now being investigated investi-gated by Governor William Spry, A F. Parker," former city engineer, D. O. McKay and Frank W Startfbrd and some Salt like parties It Is said that the plan Is backed financially fi-nancially by big eastern capitalists, who are represented by T J Allen ol Summit county. Under his direction engineering surveys of the watersheds of tne two rivers have been completed complet-ed and the plan Is considered to be practical from an engineering stand-VOlnt stand-VOlnt The two streams rise within a short distance, of each other. The annual an-nual waste of water during the flood season Is said to be sufficient. If Si'ored. to irrigate a vast area of land that is now without water. By the stclnc of the water in a mammoth reservoir the. water can bo held and conveyed tc )he great tracts 'of land how ''bovc the' Irrigation line, along tha slope of the Wasatch mountains between Ogden and the southern end of Utah county. The party of Ogden men who are Investigating In-vestigating the nroject have in mind the interest of the local land owners and the effect that the 'big re?ervolr will have in diverting part of the flood waters of the Web?r watershed to the Avatershsd of the Provo river |