Show Spotlighting Utah CENTRAL I. UTAH PROJECT PUSHED I Hoping to obtain money from the I Bureau of Reclamation for continued in investigation In- In InI investigation of Irrigation on on possibilities In Utah Ora Bundy chairman State S ate De De- Department Department De- De Department I of ot Publicity and Industrial Development and also president nt of the Colorado River-Great River Basin Water Users' Users Association Is In Washington this week j I conferring with Mike Straus Commis Commis- Commissioner sinner of ot Reclamation The be contemplated Irrigation project I h is been designated as the Central Utah Project and calls for enlarging I the capacity of ot the Strawberry Reservoir from acre feet to acre feet by beginning at Brush Creek east of ot Vernal and Intercepting Inter the upper flow of a number of ot streams then bring bring- ing this water through a series of ot two twenty-two tunnels tu nels totaling ninety- ninety three miles the largest larget of or which will be bo approximately ten miles mUes and ond conveying some somo acre feet by gravity Into the Strawberry Reservoir Below the tha re- re reservoir j I a hydro-electric hydro plant would be Installed capable of or producing more than kilowatts of ot electrical energy I I In the meantime the the- nine-member nine Utah Colorado River committee set up by the last legislature and provided with witha a eo appropriation have enlisted tho the facilities facUlties of ot the federal power com com- commission commission I mission the two state universities and the Department of ot Publicity and Indus Indus- Industrial Industrial Industrial trial Development In preparation of ot n a comprehensive report of the Colorado river potentialities in Utah The be organizations organizations organizations mentioned will undertake to assemble all available pertinent data and make whatever additional investigations Investigations are necessary The federal power commission will evaluate the resources of ot the Colorado River in Utah in terms of the potential power market and estimate costs of power developments Members of ot the river committee are William R R. Wallace Salt Lake City chairman Senator Elisha Warner Pay- Pay Payson Payson son secretary Senator James A. A Mc- Mc McMurrin McMurrin Murrin Logan Senator Mitchell Moab Representative John P. P Madsen Duchesne Representative Daniel S. S Frost Kanab Ed H H. Watson State Engineer and Edward T T. Saunders Og- Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den Weber County Commissioner DELTA DELT SEEKS NEW INDUSTRY DUSTnY L Commissioner O. O A. A Gardener of Delta has requested the aid of ot the State of or Utah in promoting the establishment of ot ofa ota a rubber production plastics plant In his city Representatives of ot a plastics plastiC's manufacturing corporation have bave been to t Delta and Inspected facilities which might be converted into a a. plant Should Delta be fortunate enough to secure this industrial establishment reports indicate that th t froth from to would bd employed and some Invested to get the plaint into production STATE BUREAU LAUDED The Utah Nevada Hotel Association In Ina a Salt Lake meeting have passed a resolution praising the accomplishments of the State Department of or Publicity and Industrial Development Signed by How How- Howard Howard Howard ard C C. Fox Association president the resolution lauded the department for forgetting forgetting forgetting getting out publicity and advertising on state attractions and industries for tor I supporting the operation of the Geneva I Steel plant for tor erection of ot experimental industrial plants and protecting the I state Interests In various ways I |