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Show ARSENAL WATER BOUGHT BY U. S. Springs Purchased by Og den Group Turned Over to War Department I The United States government Wed-n. Wed-n. sday paid to the. Ogden chamber of commerce $21,000 which was bor-I bor-I rowed in July. 1921, by the chamber i to Insure the Ogden arsenal of a first-j first-j class water supply. At that time the action of the chamber was tak n In order ihiit the plant might continue to operate, alter several attempts had bet n mad to drill and locate water 00 tin ground near the arsenal. When ih arsenal was constructed the government appropriated money for Die driving of wells and for the la ing of a pipe line. Attempts t" locate water on the grounds owned by tho government failed, with the result that the chamber cham-ber of commerce came forward with a solution to the problem which had It not been sohed, might have resulted re-sulted in the ' losing down of the ar-B( ar-B( nal until such a ttmo as money could be appropriated to secure water rights . Springs were finally located on the property of James Haroertson south of the mouth of Weber canyon. $21 -000 being necessary to close the deal for the water rights. This mom y was borrowed from local lo-cal banks by tho chamber of coin-more, coin-more, the springs In turn being leased leas-ed to the war department, giving Uncle Un-cle Sam an option to purchase at a later date. The sale then took place Wednesday. Seven miles of pipe line have been laid by the war department. A. U. Mallery, chief of the re.il estate division of the war department, vslth headquarters at San franclsco. has been In Ogden for a number of weeks arranging, the details of the transfer. "The transaction was handled without with-out a profit to the chamber of commerce' com-merce' said Secretary Jesse B Richards Rich-ards toda , "If these steps had not been taken, the arsenal no doubt would have been closed down for lack of -water This transaction, as a matter mat-ter of fact, cost tho chamber a few hundreds dollars. bJt it Is one of the many phases of public service this bodv has undertaken " oo |