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Show Sanpete Project Seems Hopeful Press reports received this week from Washington D. C. and Salt Lake City lent stimulus to the optimism op-timism entertained locally that the long sought Sanpete water project may soon receive official governmental govern-mental okey and become a thitiig cf reality rather than a dream. Leastwise, fulfillment of the dream appears to have moved anothei step closer. The Federal public works administration admin-istration Wednesday approved allocations al-locations of $900,000 to build the Hyrum irrigation project, ani $3. OuO.OOC to build the Ogden canyon project, both units of the Great Salt Lake project. Thus Utah was granted $3,900,000 out of a total allocation al-location of $15,000,000 for reclamation reclama-tion works scattered through all parts of the west. This may or may not be an indication of the administration's adminis-tration's attitude toward Utah reclamation rec-lamation projects generally. At the same time, word came from Salt Lake to the effect ,that inclusion in the federal public works ' program of five irrigation projects in Utah costing nearly $16,000,000 was recommended in a comprehensive report submitted to Governor Henry H. Blood Tuesday by the state emergency .administration .adminis-tration of public works, and one of these was Sanpete's, calling for an expenditure of $1,000,000. All of the proposed projects have been approved by the United States buieau of reclamation. The report submitted to the Governor stated that, of the five projects recommended, recom-mended, the Ogden river, Moon lake and Cache valley projects could be started at once if money were available, while the Sanpete project could be started in 60 days. Governor Blood immediately took the report under consideration, announcing an-nouncing that when he had completed com-pleted his study he would send it ,to the public works ;advisory committee com-mittee and R. A. Hart, public works engineer for Utah and Nevada. The committee submitting the report included William R: Wallace, chairman; chair-man; P .H. Mulcahy, vice-chairman; L. R. Anderson, Robert H. Hinckley, T. H. Humphreys, Charles Redd, John D. Rice, George A. ifa-ger, ifa-ger, and Edmund Fledman, acting secretary. The (.'eport called attention to) the advisability from an economic standpoint of building the projects outlined, pointing out the desperate desper-ate need for supplementary water and citing, among other pertinent points, the fact that "the official statistics show that fully irrigated farms in Utah pay taxes upon value per acre more than 50 per cent above that paid per acr bv partly irrigated farms." Further, "the 2,780,000 man-days of employment" em-ployment" provided by the five proposed pro-posed projects "would furnish nearly near-ly 100 days of employment to 30,000 heads of families." The Sanpete project would include in-clude an earth fill dam, tunnel and canals on the Gooseberry unit tunnel and feeders on the Ephraim unit and tunnel and feeders on the Spring City unit. The total cost would be $1,000,000. A committee from Sanpete county coun-ty today met with Governor Blood in oau LaKe ana laid peiore mm a plan for obtaining water from the Carbon county watershed. The committee was comprised cf State Senator W. D. Candland and C. W. Sorenson of Mt. Pleasant and Daniel Anderson, Dr. H. E. Dice and Cleon Anderson of Moroni. |