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Show SEEK DSTE ON UTHiPROJECT Government Makes Inquiry Regarding Development Near Green River salt i a k r. , Feb. I -inquiry concerning tho Condition locally in re-' g.ird to the federal Green Ulvor pro-j Ject so ns to learn If the government I may now have n free bund In this gl-gantir gl-gantir project n reclaiming 140,000 acres of land In Grand and Kmery counties, has been received in ;i let-Uer let-Uer to Govornor Charles R. Mabey ! f rom Arthur IV I 'avis, director of the reclamation service In Washlngf on f;T ES TO I l II i no inter was turned over to Ntate i Knglncer George F. McGonagle, for ! reply, and that official said "There is now nothing In the way of 'he goern-i goern-i mont In completing this enterprise, as far as the water rights (or the pro-I pro-I Ject are concerned The doeks are j cleared for action as far as this of flee la concerned All pending water ap- plications In this district, that would Interfere with the government project, have now been rejected, and none will be considered except that of the re- Iclamatlon service itself. The letter of Mr. Puvls Infers Ihat bedrock has not yet been found on the big project, hut this. I think, is an error, as I feel sure Ibat one of the commercial companies found B 'substantial bedrock there for a dam-jslte." dam-jslte." said the state englneei. dm MORE STEP "There Is only one remaining step to be taken, and that Is left to the sLato land board. The stale engineer's Office has given the government ,i froo hand In regard to the water for the project, hut It yet remnlns for the Ht.ite land board l cancel the Cares land aci segregation a ppllcut Ions for j acreage that w ill come under the proj-ect." proj-ect." said Mr McGonagle. Records show that the Old Green RJver private Irrigation company once attempted to float a project In this' I district, but after paying $15,000 de-I de-I posit to the state, the company found itself unable to finance and Is ld to have abandoned the project. It 1 'understood that tills deposit will now I be forfeited to the state. The letter to the governor from Mr Davla of the reclamation service follows. fol-lows. j "I have your letter of the 24th re-Igardlng re-Igardlng tho Green River project. I- rolo wb.it I n form.', lion u.i ha v-a fi think thin in a "feasible possibility" or I rather a possible feasibility In other words we have not gone far enough ' with the preliminary investigations 10 j resolve the riuestlon of feasibility certainly, cer-tainly, nor have we Information to pronounce the project inf;i.vilde I understand that any scheme will involve in-volve a high dam and thai the founda- 1 tlon for this has not been proven. Which of course is a vital point. 'Whenever the investigation comes up. we are confronted with the fn that there are valid pending applications applica-tions for Carey Act segregation and right of way, in the Interest of a private company, which always Insists that It proceed with the development.' on |