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Show Deer Creek Project May Still Get Money J. Will Robinson Makes Statement On Trojeet According to daily papers of Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Utah still can secure the Deer Creek project if the present deadlock among irrigation companies compan-ies can be ironed out without too much delay. In his statement Representative Robinson no significance attaches to the fact that $1,000,000 of the $2,700,000 allocated more than a year ago for starting the Deer Creek irrigation project has been called back by PWA and allocated elsewhere, else-where, when he discussed the matter mat-ter in detail with Reclamation Commissioner Com-missioner Dr. Elwood Mead. The explanation given is that the money allocated to Deer creek was lying idle, with no prospects that it can be used in the immediate future, and that pressure for projects that can be started immediately was so strong it was necessary to find money mon-ey somewhere. To meet these immediate demands a million of the Deer creek allocation alloca-tion was temporarily recalled as were slices of other allocations not being used, but with the understanding understand-ing that by the time the irrigation districts and other beneficiaries meet the conditions laid down by PWA the million will be replaced out of the new PWA fund congress is soon to appropriate. Dr. Mead told Mr. Robinson there is no intention of abandoning the Deer creek project, so long as there is a prospect that the land owners, irrigation districts, Salt Lake City and other interested parties will get together- He called attention, however, how-ever, to the fact that nearly 15 months have elapsed since the Deer creek project was approved and the initial allocation made, and suggest-, ed the advisability of signing up without any unnecessary delay. There is a limit beyond which PWA will not wait, but that limit has not yet been reached. While Dr. Mead is aware of negotiations ne-gotiations now under way in Utah and steps being taken to work out an agreement, and while he himself is anxious to see the Deer creek project built, there remains the fact that some day PWA appropriations are going to halt, and unless this project is well along when the fund ceases, Deer creek will have to await such time as congress can be persuaded per-suaded to appropriate nine to ten million dollars for its construction. Representative Robinson said his talk with Commissioner Mead was wholly satisfactory, but he stressed the importance of a quick agreement, agree-ment, so the project will not be en- dangered, as it would be by a protracted pro-tracted delay". The temporary loss of the $1,000,000 means nothing, provided pro-vided all the water users meet the terms and conditions laid down by the public works administration. o |