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Show MONTANA WATER PROJECT NOW NEEDS DRAINAGE GREAT FALLS, Mont.. Dec. 16 Contract by which thr United States reclama-tlpt) service would undertake construction of a $250,000 drainago ni on the Sun River Irrigation project has been proposed by th- d -pertinent of interior at Washington. Petitions are now being circulated In this vielnlay to secure sufficient signatures signa-tures Of the 1 1.700 acres along the Sun river watered by the $470,000 reclamation reclama-tion project, about 2 400 acres have been aff eted by seepage. The contract con-tract proposes deferring puymentn Until the annual charges on the reclamation rec-lamation cost have been completed, after which the drainage construction charges would be pro-rated over a number of years. |