Show Most unusual City plan water project Leaders of the Ute Indian Tribe and officials of Roosevelt City met recently to select engineers to draw up specifications for the joint water system that will supply Roosevelt and various communities on the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reservation with an adequate supply of pure It was a historic THE situation Is believed to be the only instance in the where an Indian tribe is cooperating with a non-Indian group to get a water The firm of Nielsen and Maxwell of Salt Lake City was a-warded the job of preparing the specifications for the It will cost approximately to LAST the Ute In dian Tribe was awarded a grant of from the Accelerated Public Works This was the largest a- mount given to any project in the The firm will have the specifications complete in about a month and then the project will be advertised for Actual construction should be started within days from the a-warding of the grant by the It should provide approximately man months of labor according to a report from Frank E. Moss THE PROJECT will le built to supply water to an increasing Roosevelt City's share should be second feet and the tribe will use about two second feet of This leaves an additional second feet of water which may be used for irrigation purposes at the present Another second feet of water are from Uriah Heeps Springs near The project will supply water to Ft and homes along the Indian Bench in addition to Class hated makes the student stay away from |