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Show Deer Creek Funds Now Made Available Utah, county forward looking citizens are elated over the news from. Washington, D. C, that the fight for the Deer creek irrigation project was won Monday when the house agreed to the conference report re-port on the interior department appropriation ap-propriation bilL carrying $500,000 for commencing construction of this project. This is in addition to the million dollars remaining of the original p w A allocation. The two together to-gether make available all the money that can be used during the first year.. One important tiling is that this initial half million dollar appropi lotion lo-tion commits the government to the building of the Deer creek project, without fixing a limit of cost, or defining de-fining the works to be built. The Deer creek project, like others included in the bill, will be carried to completion by future allocations of money from the reclamation fund, and will be built on the same terms as the older projects that antedate the P W A program. There is now in the fund approximately $12,000-000, $12,000-000, and the president, in his discretion, dis-cretion, can transfer further relief money to that fund if he deems it advisable and necessary to speed up the works which congress now has authorized. i Mr. Robinson said: "There will be enough money in the reclamation fund to carry all the approved projects proj-ects to completion, possibly not as rapidly as thought 'they were to be built with a liberal allocation of relief re-lief funds, but certainly as fast as good engineering requires. The secretary of the interior, when the president signs this bill, will have authority - to enter into contracts calling for expenditures beyond the $1,500,000 that is available, and each year, from now on, money to keep the work going will be allocated by the secretary of the interior out of the reclamation fund. "While he would have been happy to have saved the full proposed appropriation ap-propriation of $1,750,000, we have the assurance of the acting commissioner commis-sioner of reclamation that $1,500,000 is all that can be spent during the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1, and that the project will in no way be handicapped because the house insisted on reducing the initial appropriation. We are happy at knowing congress at last has authorized auth-orized the project, for that is a guarantee that it will be finished." Black Canyon The Black canyon project hi Idaho also will be started with an appropriation ap-propriation of $1,000,000. The original origi-nal amount carried by the senate amendments was $1,800,000, but the million will be ample for the first year. The appropriation of $160,000 for Boise project drainage was not reduced. Senate concurrence hi the house action is assured, thus ending the long fight for irrigation appropriations. |