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Show i THAT BIG WATER DEAL. Kp nho Commercial club of Salt Lake City is sending out circulars H urging the farmers of Weber. county to join in the project to impound H the waters of tlte Weber river at tho headwaters of the stream. H Ouft of the statements made as' to the merits of the project fol- H On a project of such magnitude It was at once realized that plans for H - extensive work could not bo made without careful investigation, and It Is 1 - - Jvvr-Uted by thoso best Informed that approximately $200,000 has boen expend- H M In determining for a certainty tbo feasibility of the project. It is con- H scrratlvoly stlmatkl that tho completion of the Davls-Webor project will H lnvolre an expondlturo considerably lo excess of 82,500,000, and tho promot- ' rs of tho enterprise havo in vlow tho carrying out of similar plans for 1 J the reclamation of Und In the south portion of Salt Lake county and the H v - norti nd of Utah county, although this phas of tho question Is ono to be M - taken up at a later date. H As wo understand this scheme, the men at tho head of it aro H principally Salt Lakers. They lmve in view two object. One is to H store water and bring the same into the Great Salt Lake Valley at the H mouth of Weber canyon, gouth of Ogdcn and north of Salt Lake: HjHfc tiiQ other is to divert the flood waters of the Weber and send H the stream to the country south of Salt Lake, through tlie Provo iver. The headwaters of the Weber can be diverted to tho Provo Hk'er watershed by the constructing of a dam aud the opening of a This project u a very large one, involving millions of dollars. " The land on which the water is to b placed must finally bear the! cost of the undertaking. Therefore those most concerned must b( the farmers who obligate themselves. The laud owners should not, hesitate to join in the enterprise, if they have faith in all the representations repre-sentations made by the promoters, but some exactions a to the safeguarding safe-guarding of the water supply of the Weber river should be demanded demand-ed before the water consumers along that stream sanction any project which may rob them of the flood waters which ore absolutely essential es-sential to crop development in years of drouth. |