Show UTAH'S WATER RIGHTS NEED Property owners of this county have an urgent date at the polls come December The citizens of seven key Utah counties on that date will have the opportunity to cast a decisive vote for a greater For ten civic leaders of the state have been fighting sometimes against almost overwhelming odds powerful interests in Lower Colorado River Basin states for this state's fair share of the The massive dams at Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge have been waters have been regulated and power is being Now comes the vital step building the project which will put Utah's share of this stored water to work on this state's thir sty acres and in this state's growing The Central Utah Project is the keystone of the entire Colorado River Storage Project as far as this state is Its size and cost and values are by far the largest of any participating units of the entire Colorado River Storage The Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project will cost an estimated million of which Utah users will be called on to but But its benefits are It Develop annually a total of acre-feet of Increase irrigation supplies by an average of acre-feet acre-feet in the Uinta Basin and acre-feet in the Bonneville Provide an average of acre-feet annually for municipal and industrial But what the Bonneville Unit will adde to the economy of Utah is even more It Increase the assessed valuation of property in the project area by Support an increase of in Utah's Increase the gross income of farm families in the project area by million per To do they will invest from to million more in their farm Expend million for materials and equipment for its various Provide an estimated million for wages and million for Take 15 to 25 years for con and provide man years of employment for Utah There is no opposition apparent to the vote asked by Utah's Water and Power and civic leaders unless you look beyond the state's border to Arizona and These fast-growing states in some areas have used all their allotted Colorado River water and They hope to fall heir to much of that belonging to the Upper Basin states by the simple expedient of putting it to use first and utilizing political pressures to hang onto meanwhile blocking and delaying upstream projects wherever and whenever A vote would be exactly what they A on the other demonstrates to them and to the federal government that Utah's citizens are determined to put their fair share of Colorado River water to work with all possible For property owners in Salt Summit and Juab counties December 14 is Challenge |