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Show Hampton C. Godbe 138. Officials and delegates of the National Reclamation Association at the 1941 convention in Phoenix, Arizona. The work of this association is invaluable to the Metropolitan Water District in obtaining adequate financing of the Provo River Project by Congress. Left to right are F. O. Hagie, Secretary- Manager of the Association; Ora Bundy, Publicity and Industrial Development Commissioner of Utah; J. W. Gillman, President, and W. P. Whitehead, Vice President of the Provo River Water Users' Association; William R. Wallace, former Chairman of the Utah Water Storage Commission; O. S. Warden, President of the National Reclamation Association; and S. A. Kennedy, Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City. al Reclamation Association of which the District is a member. Recent Congressional Action This year the District joined with representatives of seven other large reclamation projects in a move to obtain future appropriations from the general treasury of the United States instead of from the limited " Revolving- Fund" of the Reclamation Bureau. Its efforts were influential in obtaining passage bv the United States Senate of a $ 1,150,000 increase in the original $ 1,250,000 appropriation set up for the Provo River Project for 1941- 42. DISTRICT- CITY RELATIONSHIP District Serves Area of Salt Lake City The Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake City came into existence upon the initiative of the governing body of the Municipal Corporation of Salt Lake City, and although it has within its being potentialities beyond the scope of the original intent, it is now what its name implies. Its creation was proposed to the people of Salt Lake City as an instrumentality essential to the future well being of this community, as an agency without which there could neither be acquired nor effectively utilized the water supply prerequisite to continued growth and prosperity. |