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Show 54 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT \ PRELIMINARY INTEREST IN THE PROVO RIVER PROJECT It was for these reasons that, though not committed, the employees and officers of the District worked with the officers and employees of the Provo River Water Users Association and with the Bureau of Reclamation in the preparation of the " Deer Creek Repayment Contract," the fundamental contract to be executed by the Association and the United States, the contract defining the rights and obligations of the ultimate project owner and its stockholders, the project works and water rights, their costs and financing, the terms and methods of repayment and the like. They worked also upon the Subscription Contracts and the various forms of security and other agreements demanded by the government. All of these were of a complexity and variety without precedent, both because of the unusual complexity of the project itself and because of the number and variety of the different interests expected to be finally associated, interests separate and distinct but also inter- related. This work was carried on by directors George A. Critchlow and Robert L. judd, and by A. V. Watkins, J. T. Hammond, Jr., and Fisher Harris. The " Repayment Contract" was finally agreed upon and executed on June 27, 1936. ( See page 80 for detail.) ORGANIZATION OF UTAH LAKE WATER USERS ASSOCIATION In the meantime, the Metropolitan Water District interested itself and was the most active agency in the organization of the Utah Lake Water Users Association, a corporation which it was planned would and which probably ultimately will serve the same purpose and fulfill substantially the same functions relative to the Utah Lake Division of the Project as the Provo River Water Users Association does as to the Deer Creek Division. The work- 66. Winter at Brighton, at the head of Big Cottonwood canyon. A water measurement is made at a point below Silver Lake. S. L. C. Eng. Dept being • ^ * :' o::. |