Show WAY WA Y IS OPENED FOR ECHO DAM CONSTRUCTION Sufficient Water Subscribed Without Ogden City to Meet Government Requirements and Leaders See No Reason Why Reservoir Cannot Be Ready for 1927 Service TIlE HUE TIlE timeto hope that the Eche Echo reservoir can on be he completed in- in time I to store 1927 flood waters of the Weber river seemed to be bc tobe realized with the announcement Saturday that enough nough acre acre- feet of water has been subscribed and anti signed for to meet the governments government's requirements Reclamation bureau regulations require that 80 SO per pr cent of ot the th ca- ca capacity ca capacity of ot the reservoir be b subscribed before construction shall shaU begin nine Fifty nine thousand feet acre Sat Sat- Saturday Sat Saturday had been subscribed and signed for tor and nd this Is more mor than the 80 10 per cent required Thomas n Il Jones secretary ot of the Weber River Water Users as- as association and C C E B Condie Condic water commissioner made mad this announce announcement ment meat following their meeting In Salt Lake with William M l Green engineer for tor the th United States rec- rec rec reclamation service DONT DON'T NEED NEEn OGDEN rhey They said the amount sub subscribed scribed meets requirements with with- without with without out Ogden City being called upon to subscribe and so the th opinion that the city cannot come Into the th rca res- reservoir res reservoir project makes no difference In the th success of ot the enterprise C CAt At the th conference with Mr Ir Green at which Mr Jones Mr Condie and J 7 R Murdock were Vere present tobo the situation was found to tobe tobe be as follows Sufficient feet acre have haT been subscribed to meet met government re- re requIrements requirements re requirements The Th contract between the th Weber River Water Users association and the government has been approved Including approval al of ot the form of securIty offered to guarantee re- re repayment repayment re repayment payment ot of o cost of ot Arrangements fOr fo or the moving of oth the Union Pacific tracks have hav been completed also for the removal ot of the highway at Echo Completion of plans plan for the an SPa of o the land to be flood flood- flooded flooded flooded ed when ben the reservoir Is filled TO CALL LL MEETING With at all alf this accomplished accomplished it was felt Saturday that most re- re remaining r details can be be- b cleared away this week The form of ot the Instrument or mortgage seems to meet govern govern- government ment approval It Is la in the th hands otT of J H n Alexander counsel for the reclamation service who Is expect expect- expected ed d back from the Denver bureau tomorrow Upon his return a a meeting r or of orthe the water users association will wilt be beheld beheld beheld held for tor the h formal ratification ot of the contract between the canal companies and the association which Is made up of the th water users RU CANAL X At the conference with Mr Ir Green decision was as reached to provide for alSO a ISO second toot di- di diversion di diversion version erslon canal by way of ot Kamas Jamas from the reservoir This Is about halt half the size of ot the canal original original- originally ly ly planned and v nil sill III decrease the cost of construction In fact about cutting In halt half the cost of o this lea lea- feature fea feature ture of or the tho project Both Doth Mr Jones and 1 Mr 11 Condle Condie were highly optimistic Saturday night over the tho situation and each said they could see no reason whY early construction work cannot be |