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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH 125 for the extra that we pay. Actually, in that area, we will get water cheaper than we are getting it today. Mr. BURTON of California. So for 100 years you have kept this canal operating and have maintained it at an overly high cost. What would this cost mean in a given year, where you had a cloudburst or disaster, on a per share basis? An acre participating in the Hurricane Canal. Mr. WILSON-. A share represents the water from 1 acre. Mr. BURTON of California. In other words, it runs as high as $ 30 an acre some years to keep the canal operating after you have done this? ,; Mr. WILSON. Yes. Mr. BURTON of California. Are you going to need to keep operating the canal after you get the Dixie project? In other words, will you try to run the canal and pay for $ 22 water ? Mr. WILSON. The project will eliminate all of the canal that is in the canyon. Mr. BURTON of California. That is all, Mr. Chairman. Mr. JOHNSON. Off the record. ( Discussion off the record.) Mr. JOHNSON. We wish you well out there in the project. Mr. WILSON. Thank you. Mr. JOHNSON. The last witness is Mr. Preston L. Jones, chairman of the board of the Utah Water & Power Board. Mr. Jones. STATEMENT OF PRESTON L. JOKES, CHAIRMAN, UTAH WATER & POWER BOARD Mr. JONES. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I have a prepared statement here which I will not take the time to read in its entirety. Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Jones, your statement will appear in the record in full as if read. ( This statement follows:) Mr. JONES. Mr. Chairman, for the purposes of the record, I am Preston L. Jones, chairman of the Utah Water & Power Board. The Utah Water & Power Board is an official agency of the State of Utah and is charged by statute, among other things, with the responsibility of promoting water development. The board is a bipartisan organization, there being seven members from each of the two major political parties. The State engineer constitutes the 15th member of the board. The appointments to the board represent every section of the State. The board has been aware of the acute need for water and has since its early inception recognized the Dixie project as a necessary element in the comprehensive development of the State's water resources. The board has taken the lead in this water short area in resolving local controversies and in this connection has assisted the two counties competing for this water source in reaching an amicable agreement that will permit future development. This agreement was concluded when the board was under the chairmanship of the late William R. Wallace and provides that a State- financed project, the Kolob Eeser- |
