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Show Two Counties Looking j Into Future : 4 Work Progressing Toward Securing 1 I Federal Aid on Deer Creek and ! j Utah Lake Projects t fnh,013?,'6 brightening for a bigger and more prosperous I Snlf , tai and SaJt Lake counties as visions of the Great : sasm reclamation project, including the Deer Creek reservoir and , . the diking of Utah lake, become more of a reality. i ,f Umt of the Great Basin Project, the Echo dam, has already been completed. The others involving the further storage stor-age ol the flood and whiter waters of the Provo and Weber rivers ! will be constructed under the liberal loan provisions of the federal industrial recovery act, which provides a 30 per cent outright grant ' iunds and a 70 per cent loan at low interest over a 25-year P&l 10Q. Action was insured .through the naming of a special committee com-mittee of eight which was instructed to make a report within 10 days on the feasibility of obtaining necessary water subscriptions i and financing of the work through federal loans. ; The committee, half of which are from Utah county, consists con-sists of Congressman J. Will Robinson, J. W. Gillman, Elmer Jacob, Provo city engineer; I. E. Brockbank, Provo attorney; Louis Marl I cus. SaJt Lake mayor; W. R. Wallace, chairman of the water stor- I ae commission; W. D. Beers, Salt Lake city engineer and E. E. t Howe, Salt Lake county commissioner WOULD SOLVE PROBLEMS The three remaining units of the Great Basin reclamation ' project are combined as one, because the entire water problem of i Salt Lake and Utah counties would be solved in their completion. I Diking of Utah lake would greatly increase its storage ca- 4 pacity and also reduce the evaporation losses which now run from i i 75,000 to 100,000 acre-feet per season. This is exactly what Salt Lake City, the heaviest single consumer of Utah lake water, desires. ! Diking would make available at least another 100,000 acre-feet, it is estimated. The proposed dikes, 24 feet high, would cross the lake from Lincoln beach, near the mouth of the Spanish Pork river to the west shore at Pelican Point. . The other members of the Utah county delegation were May- i or Jesse N. Ellertson, Commissioner J. E. Snyder, John O. Beesley, chairman of the project committee; Julian Greer, William M. Wil- son, Alex Hedquist and G. M. Taylor. . The committee members from this county were pleased to hear Mayor Marcus say that the city would abide by a previous agreement to take 40,000 acre-feet of storage water from the Deer creek project. The mayor, however, interposed the condition that the city would insist on primary rights. I I I I 9 t t mni iiiii'Miiiiiiiiiii'iii'iiiiiii I I I tiitinn.,, n |