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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT 6t SECRETARY OF INTERIOR FAVORS FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION AND FINANCING OF AQUEDUCT In this work the board enlisted the aid of Governor Henry H. Blood, and during the month of June he, Congressman J. Will Robinson, and Fisher Harris presented the petition to the Secretary of the Interior and went over the entire matter with him at length, with the result that some days later the Secretary of the Interior expressed himself in writing to the effect that " the construction of facilities for delivery of water from the Deek Creek reservoir to the Salt Lake area is recognized and favored by the Department as a desirable unit in the ultimate development of the Provo River Project." While this expression was not of binding effect, it was thought by the District's Board of Directors, accompanied as it had been, by personal assurances, to be sufficiently definite that a subscription to the project itself might be safely made, and that in due time whatever might be necessary to a final and definite and binding agreement for the aqueduct construction on reclamation terms would be accomplished. This decision was arrived at about the time federal reclamation officials evinced their readiness to receive a subscription from the Metropolitan Water District, and accordingly steps were at once taken toward the calling of an election by which the proposal to subscribe to the project and to enter into a contract for the construction of the aqueduct would be submitted to the taxpayers within the District. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF DISTRICT CALLS SPECIAL ELECTION TO SUBMIT DEER CREEK SUBSCRIPTION AND MAKING OF AQUEDUCT CONTRACT TO TAXPAYERS OF SALT LAKE CITY An election for that purpose was called, as provided by the Metropolitan Water District Act, by ordinance passed by the Board of Directors of the District on September 15, 1937. The propositions submitted to the taxpayers were: " Proposition No. 1- " Shall the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City, for the purpose of obtaining a water supply for the District, be authorized to enter into a contract by which it shall subscribe for 50,000 shares or so much thereof as may be available to subscription, of the capital stock of the Provo River Water Users Association, on the terms and conditions and for the purposes set forth in the Ordinance by which this election is called?" " Proposition No. 2- " Shall the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City be authorized to enter into a contract with the United States of America or the Provo River Water Users Association, or both of them, for the acquisition and construction of distribution facilities for the water supply of the District, on the terms and conditions and for the purposes set forth in the Ordinance by which this election is called?" |