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Show fm-k on Deer Creek E 11 To Start This Year 1000; Pleasant Grove Irrigation company, 2,500; Highland Conservation Conser-vation district, 5.500; Prove- Metropolitan Metro-politan district, 800; Highland Conservation Con-servation district 1,500; Lehi Metropolitan Met-ropolitan district, 500; Heber Metropolitan Met-ropolitan district, 300; Salt Lake Metropolitan district, 44,000; American Amer-ican Fork Metropolitan district, 500; Pleasant Grove-Lindon Metropolitan Metro-politan district, 800; Salt Lake Valley Val-ley Irrigation and Canal companies, nanamcd, 1000, and State of Utah for military reservation at Jordan Narrows, 1000. Total, 98,100. a . the definite date of ac--,oll? Man work on the Deer , ' U known, off icials the various water -;iire xpect that construction -Slat tHLs winter, proviclii.g conditiom will permit. ,; the work will start is that is uppermost in the Utah and Salt Lake county 'fLlitan water boards may Rapidly in having the qual-of qual-of their districts ap-- ap-- Icriptions of their respec- s h- W- CiUman, presi-, presi-, A y Watkins, general h Tfor the Provo River Water f; asociation, pointed out. 7h but ten days being necessary S;sh notice for holding special 6ls for approval of these sub-these sub-these elections could be rt early as September (, a is h, l1ed providing all the six m water districts were "t to hold elections by this date v, ae voters approve their sub-led sub-led -n-m the 80 per cent necessary X subscribed, before the gov-at gov-at would ask for bids on the -K. 4ct would be assured, as the Reservoir Water Users' asso-d asso-d '.yon directors have already voted T-ie 16,000 acre feet and the Utah 1 "$ Distributing company directors tie voted to take from 12,000 to :;.3 acre feet. Once the 80 per cent is subscribed ; is thought it would take between in and three months for the gov- 'eanent to ask for bids and award fit contracts. Although actual construction work -jj not begin until late winter, m the 80 per cent is subscribed to assure the project, much activity ward getting ready for actual ffitruction work should get under It has been reported that ap-Erimately ap-Erimately 3,000 men would work )m the project. The dam will be a rolled earth abankment, approximately 180 feet high, which will impound approximately approxi-mately 150,000 acre feet, which, should j-. produce a 100,000 acre feet annual f-r peld. The dam will be located a j 0th of a mile above Deer Creek in 5111 Pwo canyon or about 18 miles east i Provo. rejE The Weber-Provo diversion dam, nt i: mstnicted in 1931, will be enlarged bert t b carry 1000 second feet, while the arrii? Provo Reservoir company canal will of'i aiobe enlarged to carry water for iay Utah valley water companies. n.k" Saturday, directors of the Provo ; sett River Water Users' associa tion passed npltp: s resolution to accept subscriptions .pa i for stock in the association and for i ins ti'chase of water rights in the roject and allocated to the pros-iowC; pros-iowC; Wive subscribers the maximum etov timber of snares each may pur-a;1 pur-a;1 a. J H !lesP- tang the day, Saturday, another ipwtant move was recorded, when fetors of the Provo Reservoir ter Users' company, one of the JM subscribers in the project, 51 prized their president, J. W. n, and their secretary, R. J. ilciE of Provo to sign a sub-thai sub-thai n contact for 16,000 acre Wij .smove paves the way for met-,t met-,t al- f'M water district boards to tf - special elections at which qual- 3noi :;;sertiof these win v- Wto approve the subscrip-itbt subscrip-itbt "f the district. puff- T,,e 0rem. Lehi and American tf "awpolltaa water district a, J,', nare,r,eported to be prepared 5 , J QMckl, while the Pleasant erpt-; :,lntion district has some in- : WJ make before it can itt i'su l amount anti size of r . "Option it wishes to permit ;ltt "ters, according to Mr. Wat- tJ Preparedness of other com-nc(t' com-nc(t' Sign sut)scription con- f: - ZT 0utUni I" a report to thg0. Watkins on all 5ntnre meeting Satday, A- f;GlIlman said, "all con- lCl ,Wlthtlle Utah Power Pany fW winter water, itCeTalf the rallroad 5: 1:i!'actoHif 0srresslnS rapidly and are on itieaa these parties, Af "HtttS? commissin, the We- f r & Rg,ht comPany and the 10 km"h7 Granle Western XjV The said- llOnn Whlch was Ped it wgread in Part: sh?6' reSOlved that the ttstLstt?WWchrep- ect to sell? iation will con-J con-J as fii Ptive subscrib- tjs;r"0ws: Provo Reservoir tk Dlstrihvmpany' 17'00; Utah VtJnScompany, 15,000; I a irrigation company, |