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Show PLENTY WATER FOR PROJECTS Federal Reclamation Serv-L- ice Director Reviews Boulder Proposals SALT LAKE. Marrh 14 - That there U ample water In the uppor basin of the Colorado and Its tributaries to provide all the feasible projects In mmm I'tah. Colorad o. Wyoming and New Mexico and leave supply for the loner basin aufflclent to water the possible mMm projects fhero. Is tile opinion of A P bBSSbbb! 12av1" dlrctor of the Unite J States Reclamation service, who arrived In Bait Lake Inst night. IH Mr. Davis attended the recent sas- H. ion of the Colorado river cmmis- slon on tin- Colorado river problems at Phoenix. Ariz., and mil be In Salt pppfl Lake for the meetings sajisduled tor next week which Sccro ry f I ItltH 'rco Herbert Hoover, ilmlrman of mmm the commission will attend .Mr. Da- pppB vis said that his conclusions concern- Ing Irrigation projects In the upper b-PPH b-PPH sin are reached after 20 year of BtOd) "r lh' p"ot.it in Involved, Including IjjK ar ' the Colorado and its tributaries carry "-'Tr . ennuallv. RfSPI i SITE The director of reclamation was accompanied ac-companied to Salt I.ik. Iij r i: Wey-lnnilfti Wey-lnnilfti I'lllr.f onirln . . t It,. ri,ln m n 1 Hon service. These two officials cam directly to Salt lk from personal Investigation of the boulder canyon I project, where they visited a proposed I damslto for the undertaking In Black I canyon. w Director Dai-. hag recommended ' the adoption of tin BouldSr canyon reservoir tdtc. tin il.unsit, ih,w..vit. being as yet n matter im rurthcr investigation. in-vestigation. The Boulder canyon project pro-ject Is altogether feasible and the rer- Jamntlon service, together with Secre-( Secre-( tnry of the Interior Fall, hope m gf t a i congressional appropriation to finanl ' the undertaking. Falling li-dt.T il :i ppi or l it Ion for the undertaking Director Iavis Indicated Indi-cated last night that certain south"; n California commnnlif. including Ios ' Angeles. Riverside, Ban Diego, Lopgl r Beach and others, which would benefit bene-fit directly and Indirectly, would undertake un-dertake to provide the nerenaarx funds. But. inasmuch as the project i r. would not only repay interest, but rap- lf Ital Invested us well. Director Davis expressed the opinion that congress may think well enough of the plun to I make the d sired appropriation. I I Ml PKOJTD I a 'Today Mr. Davis v. ill confer with I officers of the Utah water storage as- U soclatlon relative to project- within 1 the state, and will, through meetings with various persons concerned with irrigation and reclamation guln firsthand first-hand information of the alms and de-,, de-,, sires of this section DuSfng the. course v, - ...... w- i w . . ..... 1w" ilia nifijr Jill lie BSfl9Cia M MSI' the Strawberry project ml other completed com-pleted and projected Irrigation schemes. Because of the lack of appoprln-Mons appoprln-Mons and the Inability of Some projects to make repayments as rapidly as ie-rod. ie-rod. the department in the present fiscal year will have expended only between $300,0Oo and $ i.ituii.iioii, In said. Payments have been delayed I principally .i n result of the agricul tural market reverse "f the past two I years, Mr Davis explained, and added J that reports to his office at the pres- I cnt time Indicate that the improving I financial conditions of arrriculturc in L general, make p,.-.!!.!.- Lh fast 01 I repayment of fnnfi" an.i the conse- quent expansion of lhc department s work. k The Smith-JdcNary bill, now before the departm nt, Mi Davis said, and B i" will be- come law. The bill. If passed, will bo H porta ncl to 1 e wesl and to the cause of economic reclamation and i i j i cr.it ion in all parts of the country. |