Show an appeal to Every everyone cne interested in the future of utah from the utah ulah water users association more alore than thirty years ago i large group of the citizens of salt lake city and ogden joined in providing a fund of ith which to promote the conservation of the flood waters of the weber ogden od id provo rivers many abany years passed before their efforts were rewan rewarded led wilh success surely these men may point with pride to an annual crop value of under the weber project and with greater pride to the tremendous help given by utah to the war effort which help was made possible by the conservation of ohp waters of these iwers A much greater task confronts us water vater users from all parts of the state are gathered together in the utah water Us rs Is assiz association aaion and again they call upon you for aid the total capacity of the three g geat cat reservoirs weber ogden and deer creek is less than acre beet feet aside from jeer deer creek the total reservoir capacity owned by salt lake city is about acie feet the utah water users association is 1 ur arely ely and simply a promotional organization composed of a group of citizens interested in the further development of utah with an appreciation of the fact that the entire economy of the future of utah is tied to the possibility of the development of our water wat resources rather than attempting to make the organization a state agency it has been determined that the undertaking should be financed on the basis of local subscriptions with the state divided into six districts with representation from all of the six districts on the board of directors so that a complete and comprehensive promo promotional program of all water resources of the state may be developed the association les does not anticipate doing the actual engineering work on the various water projects 4 out it it does anticipate finding ways and means of providing either on a local county or late basis or by an appeal to the national reclamation bureau to obtain the engineering necessary upon which the foundation of all waters developed must be laid and then using all of its facilities and resources and all of the manpower associated with it to oring bring about the completion of the projects which are proven feasible it is anticipated that through private Pub approximately each year pay be obtained and it is proposed that N ne e request the board of county commissioners of each of the counties in the state to provide to the utah water users association an amount of money equal to two orie one hundredths edtha of one mill based on assessed i valuation of the respective counties this would provide a total of approximately for the corporation to administer its affairs and would provide it with the feces i sary office assistance legal counsel and an engineer who would be responsible for ohp i promotion of the engineering on all projects the water problems of the state of utah may be subdivided into five general problems more than one and one half mi constructed that will permit her to use lion acre feet of water discharge annually part of waters allocated to us and by long into the great salt lake a large part of years use set up a claim for permanent which can be conserved the evaporation right thereto wisdom dictates we must i annually from the surface of great salt put our allocated share of the colorado I 1 lake is more than three million acre feit river to beneficial use 2nd and it is believed that the efficient ath at the close of this war there service of every stream within the state must be return to boondoggle every no can be substantially increased in many dollar spent in developing water by more than careful study and S semiarid semi arid land will return boun in our a careful planning of water u supply will 1 ekx ticul harvest after after year year year point the way to an increased sr income ss n and will ssi provide work real work nearly every one of our more than six hundred communities there is no na surer sur ath home ownership farm owner way to aid in the prosperity of our people ship are the basis of the finest civilize 3rd ard our share of the waters of the tion ours is the privilege to aid in assur colorado river can be made to brodu produce e ing opportunity to those we love who will untold wealth california holds contras contra 3 return home duty done with the hope for the use of waters impounded by boulin their hearts that their lives may be der dam that will permit an increase n lived in this blessed land called utah population of seven million souls also that cannot be if we sit idly by and per california has plans and works partially partial lv mit our precious waters to waste away the utah water user association at s r meeting held in the state capitol on june 19 1944 organized on a temporary basis with all officers directors and advisers and a permanent pei pelm manent organization will he be in september of this year we are very anxious an ious to he be able to report at thit that mv elIg that the financing of the undertaking has been completed for ahat reason e would sincerely appreciate your giving this matter your early attention i UTAH WATER USERS association by win wili it R wallace president A W watson secretary treasurer gus 11 I 1 backman Bac kinan acting manager |