Show ACTION URGED ON UTAH LAKE Would Adjudicate Water Rights Eights As Step In Development Adjudication of all nil water rights to Utah lake Jake and Its tributaries is L to tobe tobe be the first step toward development de of that section of the Great Basin Irrigation project according to de de- determination de determination termination t of the Utah Water Wat r Stor Star Storage Storage age commission at its session Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday afternoon in the state cap cap- capItoL capItoL ItoL This procedure is necessary ac according ac ac- according cording to t the special Utah lake com com- committee committee committee of the commission which wl ch re reported re- re reported ported at the session Action of the committee and commission was commended com com- commended commended mended by Senator r W W. H II King who said ald that this was the method the Ule federal government desired to have SOME SO Opposition to this tl s plan developed however when J J. J R R. Murdock and andA A A. F F. Doremus members of the com com- commission commission mission declared that the Utah lake water rights were no more complicated complicated complicated than those of the Weber river area arta and that the Echo unit had been started without adjudication Mur Slur Murdock dock wanted to know If the plan pro pro- proposed proposed posed was as meant to re affirm the rights of the Utah Conservation tion com- com comP company pany P to surplus waters r ury tS Doremus r felt that such Ch a a. step as the one recommended by the com com- committee committee committee was unnecessary He said the reclamation bureau had proceeded with the Echo project although althou h the waters of that stream had not been adjudicated He also said the report would place placa the commission in the position of taking one stand on the Weber river and another in regard to Utah lake He also disputed the ar argument are ar- argument of one of the supporters of the recommendation to the effect that the settlement of the rights on Utah lake by adjudication could proceed quickly and with little or no no delay He lie declared that the adjudication on the Weber was started years ago and andIs Is still In progress I It was pointed out by W W. O. O Creer and others that tint the government would not proceed with mth the Utah lake project project project until the matter mattu of water rights had been settled i i Proposals that the Great Basin ir irrigation Ir ir- irrigation project be divided Into four associations in addition to the Ule We We- Weber Weber ber her River RJ Water Users' Users association were made by Murdock who ho had previously previously suggested that all be merged In one The new plan would provide pro pro- provide vide ide one association for water In Utah lake including drain drain- drainage drainage drainage age In ln Salt Lake and Utah counties one for lor water on Provo river one for water In Cache county and one for develop develop- developing d developing elop ing power for irrigation in all the eight counties named In the resolution resolution tion except Wasatch Wasat h county rowER DEVELOPMENT rO t I Power pow development o questions were also brought before the water storage lik rage commission by Murdock who said that electric power will 1111 be needed for lor various pumping projects In Utah Among the areas which can be wa wa- watered watered wa- wa watered through installation of pumping plants are sec Tons along the Bear river riser and near Utah lake he said The Huntington n river project came before the commission when a peti peti- petition petition petition tion was as presented by citizens of the Huntington n district suggesting the lon sponsor this plan Forty thousand acres of land In Em- Em Emery cry ery and Carbon counties is Included In this Irrigation plan This pro pro- proposal proposal will have preliminary Investigation gation by E E. O O. Larson Larron reclamation service engineer and be again con con- considered considered considered by the commission The White WhiteRocks WhiteRocks Rocks Irrigation project In n county will be similarly considered acres being Involved |