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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS or WATER DEVELOPMENT 67 to participate in the Provo River Project to an extent substantially as the District had, would have been equivalent to a renunciation of the ambitions of this community, to an acceptance of a philosophy of despair; because, except for the water supply which will shortly accrue from that Project, the City of Salt Lake City and the Valley of the Great Salt Lake would be " through,"- finished and done for as things of vitality, as living organisms, which, when they cease to grow, commence to decay. It would have been difficult indeed to have renounced the water supply available from the Provo River Project, but without the Aqueduct it was many miles distant, could not have been devoted to municipal uses and, in all probability, had an aqueduct to be financed as other communities have been compelled to finance similar enterprises, it would never have been built, and with that probability in prospect the obtaining of the water supply itself would have been of doubtful advisability. It is only financing upon Reclamation terms, the repayment of costs without interest, which makes possible to the Salt Lake valley or Utah County a water supply comparable to that of the Provo River Project. That Project and those terms save the people of Salt Lake City annual interest charges of $ 140,000. The opportunity for that saving was afforded by the far- sighted and benevolent policy of the Utah Water Storage Com- 81. Neon- lighted relief map of the Provo River Project in the 193? special election. Two such maps, each measuring 10 feet square, were displayed, one at each cf the exhibit headquarters. Bill Shipler |