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Show r f;v;f - m mi wp: 5P y M - ' fr In wl ' yJ t ": . L-- c - - V-V If 7 I : N ; Ml V- St Gov. Herbert B. Maw inspects an Indian war drum as Lois Secakuku, at his left, places an Indian war bonnet on his head. The Indians invited the governor to attend Indian day celebration at Roosevelt, Sept. 22. The braves at the ROOSEVELT m ELECTED TO SERVE ON UTAH-COLORADO WATER USERS CCMTTEE William R. Wallace of Salt 1 Lake City, Eelected President Of Permanent Organization The Utah Water Users' Assn. completed a permanent organization organ-ization Tuesday at a meeting in the capitol, and decided to send a committee to study projects on the lower Colorado river in the light of the pending treaty with Mexico. William R. Wallace, Salt Lake City, former chairman of Utah water storage commission, was elected president; D. D. Harris, Lay ton, manager of the Weber River Water Users' Assn., first vice president; George D. Clyde of Logan, dean of engineering, Utah State Agricultural college, second vice president, and Alon-zo Alon-zo W. Watson, Salt Lake attorney, at-torney, secretary-treasurer. Directors Selected Directors from various districts dis-tricts of the state were named as follows: No. 1, Mr. Clyde; No. 2, J. A. Howell, Ogden and Mr. Harris; No. 3, Mr. Wallace, Dr. John A. Widtsoe and Ray Hammond, Ham-mond, Grantsville; No. 4, R. L. Murdock, Provo; No. 5. Nels L. Peterson, Redmond; No. 6, Wallace Wal-lace Mathis, St. George, and Byron By-ron Howard, Huntington. .Directors tit large are: Orson A. Chrislensen, Brigham City; W. B. Beers, Salt Lake City engineer; en-gineer; George Marshall, Min-nersville, Min-nersville, and Horace L. Allred, Roosevelt. Applauds Treaty Mr. Wallace declared that California Cal-ifornia is "making a desperate effort" to defeat the treaty, now pending in the senate foreign relations committee, and under which Mexico, would receive 1,500,000 acre feet of Colorado river water a year. He reiterated his belief that it 4s a good treaty, and asserted tlvat "in my opinion we can ratify rat-ify he treaty and no harm will come to the state of Utah". He said th? "careful people" of six upper basin states and Texas "are not going against one state (California) unless there is a reason for it. The men who write the treaty in the state department depart-ment are career men, not politicians". poli-ticians". , It was on Mr. Wallaces suggestion sug-gestion the association decided to send a committee to study Colorado river projects in Arizona, Ari-zona, California and Mexico. Included In-cluded in the group will be the three directors from the Colorado Colo-rado basin in Utah Mr. How- y ard. Mr. Mathis and Mr. Allred. Horace L. Allred of Roosevelt, was selected as a director at large at a meeting held in Price, Utah Thursday evening, September Sep-tember 14th, He will represent district No. 6, which comprises ten counties in the Colorado river riv-er water sheds. The counties run from and includes all counties coun-ties from Washington to Dag-get. Dag-get. The Uintah Basin is very fortunate for-tunate in securing the service of Mr. Allred, as he has had considerable con-siderable experience in our water wa-ter problems, and is a hard and energetic worker. Those who attended the meet' ing at Price from Roosevelt were County Attorney Ray E. Dillman, County commissioner Willard Day and Horace L. Allred. Al-lred. Commissioner Day and Allred Al-lred attended the big meeting held in Salt Lake Tuesday of this week. left are Mock Jim and Chief Andrew Frank, and at extreme right is Princes Bertha Shavanaugh. They visited the chief executive, an honorary member of the Ute tribe, at his capitol office. |