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Show Eureau Man Visits Utah The apparent "success" of cooperative co-operative investigations between the state engineer and WPA in Utah's underground water and smad reservoir program, Saturday Satur-day brought a visitor to the office oi State Engineer T. H. Humph-erys. Humph-erys. Hex J. Reed of Grecnriver, Wyoming, engineer in charge oi Gren river investigations in Colorado and Wyoming for ine U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, sought details of the cooperative program. Air. lued also met with E. B. Del.ler of Denver, Colorado, hydraulic hy-draulic engineer for the bureau, and other bureau officials while .n Salt Lake City. He left for Wyoming Saturday night. "S.nce Utah has been very successful suc-cessful in carrying out these investigations in-vestigations With the federal agency, ag-ency, we in Wyoming are mtei-csted mtei-csted in knowing how it is done," ! he said. I The 'bureau engineer related ! progress on four investigations under his direction in which Utah is particularly interested. The proposed projects would transfer water from the Green river or tributaries through transmoun-tain transmoun-tain diversion into the Bear river, he stated. The state engineer disclosed that the WPA had, during the past two 'bienniums ending June 30, 1!M0, spent $232,055 in Utah on investigations conducted in cooperation with his department. He said that investigations have been made of the state's under-round under-round water basins together .ilh locating all existant wells .ind determining their output. More than 700 small reservoir us were investigated, he said, mid the information made avail-,.ule avail-,.ule to the bureau of reclama-iiii, reclama-iiii, piacing Utah ahead of all olacr vvLi'.eni states in her readiness readi-ness to particpale in the Case-Wheeier Case-Wheeier small reservoir program. Mr. Ilumpherys also advised .he o.Ticsul from Wyoming thai both houses of the Utah Stale 1 1; i la i. re has acted favorably on II. II. 137, a bill which will authorize the state engineer to i act as agent for the state in negotiating ne-gotiating pacts with neighboring .-.tales lur distribution of the wu-'cis wu-'cis of Hie lirar river anil olacr interstate streams. |