Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-25 | Page 3 | Lake Project Moving Ahead

LAKE LASE PROJECT MOVING AHEAD A lD Bacon Wants nuts Provision t f Kept In Interior De- De De Department Bill SILT SALT LAKE L Jan So 25 So sails satis satisfactory factory in the opinion of George GeorgeM M lC Bacon state engineer is the progress that has already been made nade toward Inauguration of ot work on the Utah lake Jake control unit of or the Great Salt Lake basin reclamation project that it is la possible for actual construction work to get under way ay almost as soon as on the Echo res- res reservoir res Provo Weber Provo Provo canal unit The rhe optimistic view of oC Mr Bi- Bi Ba- Ba Bacon Ba Bacon con Is expressed In a II letter leUer to Sen- Sen Senator Sen Senator ator need Smoot urging that that It appears at this end enet or of o the line rather important that the words Utah lake control be retained In Inthe Inthe the Interior department appropriation appropriation tion bill which continues foe tor f r the Great Greal Salt Lake Basin project the approprIations of the last congress Assuming writes the state en- en engineer en engineer giner that negotiations now now In progress for tor an agreement be- be bet between be between t tween Salt Lake county and Utah county Interests are ara l my individual opinion Is that the progress progress progress ress In getting gelling a a contract with the bureau of ot reclamation would be much more rapid than In the tho ca case e eor or of the Echo reservoir The funds Cund for revision ot of Jordan river channel chan chan- channel channel nel would come conic from a district a- a al- al already al already ead ready organized and In a position to vote on the matter and obligate itself with very Cry cry little delay 00