Show lions urged to promote basin water project lions in zone meeting at heber city hear engineer outline need for great basin water project A group of lions club members from vernal roosevelt duchesne heber city and american fork in heber city saturday evening for a zone E conference hoard heard leland 11 kimball engineer for the salt lake city metropolitan water district outline the value and importance of the colorado river great basin water project and urged the support of all utahna for the project mr kimball told the group tl that 11 at the future of tile the state depends upon diversion and asli use of water water from tile the colorado river or its tributaries tributa ries sufficient not only to supplement deficient water supplies in irrigated sections but atso also to place under irrigation a large area of the sections of the state having suitable soil lie ile pointed out that since 1930 utah tax valuation had slumped rapidly and describing tax valuation as ag wealth mr air kimball said that something must be done three major industries support this state stale agriculture mining and livestock to these may now be added the tourist indest industry y which is the only one of our major industries dus tries that is ig showing an increase other speakers speaker other speakers were J L hiatt of hebor heber district governor and earl Holn istead of american fork deputy district governor of lions clubs dr john H 11 dark clark of vernal was toastmaster Mern aernberg berG of the rosevelt roosevelt club in attendance were AT E lundberg president C C white past president and presley timothy they were accompanied to heber city ity by their wives |