Show i POWER PLANT I AID REQUESTED I Reclaiming declaiming Acres in Great Basin Is Object PROVO Aug 4 With With a view to establishing e a Il power plant to tobe tobe tobe be used in a aa a. a plan to reclaim re lahn up up- upward ward of of acres at ot land In n tho the Great Greit Salt SaU Lake L. basin Abel John John Johi Evans E E B. B Jones and George Bernard Dernard of Lehi appeared I before beCore the Utah county commis commis- commission commisSion sion III on to ask for Cor an appropriation of ot I If It Utah county count with other counties within the basin will appropriate 1250 tho the Utah tah wa wa- water walEr water ter lEr storage commission will match that amount Mr Evans explained and anel when made available the tho United States reclamation r bureau will furnish 2500 making a total of ot to 10 be bo used to InvEst I gate ate the feasibility of establishing S a n. hydroelectric power plant for forthe forthe forthe JJ the purpose of furnishing power for pumping water with which to Irrigate areas of ot land at various arlou t points Mr Ir Evans Eans states that one of the projects under contemplation of being reclaimed Is that o- o o This Includes a II tract of ot upward of ot acres with the finest t soil In the state Another project 18 Is the Bonneville tract In Inthe Inthe the tho south end of ot Davis count county and also several thousand acres 3 of good land In Tooele county which Would be bo benefited by b n I power plant capable of furnishing furnIsh In power at a rate that would n not DO be prohibitive Such a plant t. Mr Ir Evans Eans ex- ex explained ex ex- explained would be erected purely to supply power for pumping plants and not for commercial l use 00 oo |