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Show Sanpete Group Asks Early Project Ruling Water Storage Board's Help Is Sought The Utah water storage commis-m commis-m was urged Tuesday by a. deletion dele-tion from north Sanpete county f intercede wth tiie United States nreau of reclamation in an effort Jf get, an early report on the proved pro-ved Gooseberry project. This project, wlhioh. would include 15000 acre foot dam and a long Ln'ei, would provide sua.iplemien-'Zt sua.iplemien-'Zt water for 10, 000 acres of land . t the northern part of Sanpete gmty. The farmers are anxious tnow if the bureau considers " project feasible from an engi-: engi-: Jeering and econci.mlo standpoint. ? flmo L. Irons of Moroni, chairs' chair-s' man of the water users' committee 0 Ncrth Sanpete, said the water c,,de" available by a project like (ostberry would mean the differ-t differ-t ace between good crops and p:or crops in a year like the present. Crops Reduced f Mr. Irons said that in north San-pets San-pets while the sugar beets are good ere will be only about 2o per cent 0I a normal crop of alfalfa, grain, kjs and potatoes because of frost and drouth. The southern part of Sicpete county, on the other hand, Is in good condition because of the j (later provided by the Gunnison reservoir. County commissioner Lyman See-ley See-ley was in the delegation Ahioh called on the commission. Grcver A. Giles, assistant attorney attor-ney general, s3idi the amendment proposed by Uti i people to the faik amending the Boulder canyon act apparently is misunderstood by nemters of the congressional delegation. dele-gation. Explains Object The object of the alr.lendi.nent, re explained, is to make it perfectly per-fectly clear that Utah and other Colorado river basin states can proceed with projects of their own without hiving to wait for completion comple-tion of the co.r.peraensive survey cf tee basin, Leland IT. Kirr.Iaall, engineer mtnager of the Colorado River-Great River-Great Easin Water Users' assccia-tcn assccia-tcn said he didnot consider the litest amendment t roposed by Representative Rep-resentative Ate Murdock to be ad-tqiate. ad-tqiate. He said he fears the language lang-uage cf the amend. rent d:es not iitke Utah independent of the act. Mr. Giles said he believes Utah is protected adequately without the arendment, but he sees no objec-ton objec-ton to one as a precautionary isasure. |