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Show Gooseberry Is Favored For Construction T'ne Utah water storage commission commis-sion Friday, at a special meeting at the capitol, which drew attendance attend-ance of some of the most influential influen-tial irrigationists of Utah, voted to approve four Utah reclamation units, un-its, and to recommend to Congress that iniatial "appropriations be made at the present session foi each unit, or for as many of the four as may Dt. W. R. Wallace, chairman of the commission, at once started work on determining the best pian to be followed to carry out these recommendations. He will immediately immed-iately get in touch with reclamation officials at Washington in this connection. con-nection. The commission desires to have deiinitcly earmarked for Utah projects proj-ects some $10,000,000 of reclamation funds, which Dr. Elwood Mead director di-rector of the United States bureau bu-reau of reclamation, says has been programmed for this state. The board seeks also to get these; Utah projects definitely "on the map." knowing that, in accordance with fcdtial customs, such projects arc ca-Tied to completion once the iniatial appropriations have be ;n made, and provided that the detailed de-tailed studies and the progress of the work still show projects to be feasible. Each of the four projects, it was assured at the meeting Friday, is farther along in the preliminary vVLik than was the Echo reservoir project, new completed, at the time the iniatial appropriation was made frv it. The Gooseberry project, in Carbun county, serving Sanpete county landt, to cost p.obably $500,000. The users affected propose 10,000 acre-foot storage here, to he brought through the divide tunnel. The field work on the Gooseberry project is about 80 pei ent complete. com-plete. A force oi engineers is to be sent next week to run a, preliminary prelim-inary line for a canal to serve some of the lands. Among those attending from Sanptte county were: Mayor Bent R. Hansen, L. R. Christensen and Joseph Seely of Mt. Pleasant; Le-vern Le-vern Jensen and Burns Cox, representing rep-resenting the mayor, Fairview; Mayer Lee Allred, Spring City, ,-uid Daniel Anderson, all representing the Gooseberry project. |