The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-27
President Approves Engineers
Report Authorizing Expen-
diture of $20,000,000.
WANT STATES TO SETTLE
WATER RIGHTS AT ONCE
AppOrtiOnment Includes Big
Sum for Strawberry Project
in Utah.

WASHINGTON. Dec, 26-President
Taft has approved the report of the spe-
cial board OF army engineers recommend
ing the apportionment Of the new s2o,-
100000 fund, provided by congress.
among the following reclamation projects
In the west:
Salt River, Arizona, si95, 900; Yuma.
Arizona and California. 81 200 000 Grand
Valley. Colorado $1,000. 000 Uncompah-
gre; Colorado. $1,000. 900; Payette Boise,
Idaho, 50. 600. 900; MIX River. Montana.
Nebraska. $1,000. 600: Truckee Carson.
Nevada, s1.l93, 900; Rio Grande. New
Mexico. Texas and Mexico, $4,000. 600:
Dmatilla, Oregon s325. 900; Klamath.
berry Valley. Utah, s2,2I2.0Oo: Sunnyside
and Tieton, at Yaltima. Washington. 81.
250.00 and $685., 900 respectively.
The s2o.0oo.oo0 is TO be spent within the
next five years. and the interest OH the
loan is to be charged against the pro-
jects.
The following projects, completed or
nearing completion. carry recommended :
ton for funds from the general reclama :
ton net sufficient only for maintenance
and operation:
orand, California: Carlsbad New Mex
leo: Honda. New Mexico; Garden city,
Kansas: Kittitas. Wapata and Benton
units OF the Yakima. Washington, project.
Allotments Recommended.
For The following existing reclamation
projects the boa rd of engineers. in the
report approved by the president. recon-
mcnds allotments from the general recla-
nation fund:
Missouri Pumping. North Dakota; Bell
fourche. South Dakota: Shoshone. Wyo-
ming; Mindoka. Idaho. Huntley. Mon
tana. Sun River. Montana; Lower yell
ton.
In his letter TO the secretary of the in =
terror approving the report of the cngi-
neers President Taft says, in part
II hereby approve the report OF the
board of engineers In respect to the
reclamation projects 10 which they nave
made allotmcnts from tho SZo,ooo,ooo
loan. this approval. so far as the amounts
OF the allotments are concerned. ls not
final and absolute, but is intended TO DC
subject to change By adjustment ana
necessary for the intelligent and proper
prosecution Of the work and TO the ao-
vantage OF the service. :,
You are authorized 10 call upon the
secretary of The treasury TO issue tne
certificates of Indebtedness neeoeo 20
furnish the funds in accordance WIN lhS
allotment recommended by the poaro a,.d
approved by me. as the same Shall De
needed from time 10 time, In pursuance
OF the terms OF the act. -
"Thc remainder OF The report OF the
engineers. which was not responsive 10
the direction OF the law. but was drawn
ut my request and for my Information,
hereby approve, and when congress re
convenes in January. J snail supinit e. = .
the report announcing my approval Tor
the same and urging the adoption of the
enabling legislative measures recommehd-
ed by the board"
Can Improve Designs.
In lis comprehensive report on the
reclamation work In general the en-
gineers board says In part:
"The engineering structures OF the
various projects are as whole, wen
designed and we'll built. Some Of them.
as the Pathfinder dam. the Shoshone
dam, the Roosevelt dam and the Gunni-
SON funnel are monuments rcflccting
great credit on both designer and builder.
Modern irrigation being relatively
was allowed the local engineers in the
design OF minor structures. While this
was a wise policy In the early stage OF
the work IL has resulted In come COM
plications and unnecessarily expensive
with tho present knowledge of the
comparative merits of th" different types:
il is believed that standard designs OF
the simplest satisfactory type should be
adopted for all minor structures.
The most uncertain feature of nearly
all the projects is the water supply; This
is under state control and the rcclama-
ton service bears the same relation TO
the state as a private individual or cor
pora ton. Where the water rights have
states are well defined, but elsewhere
thev arc uncertain and may prove to be
materially different from what has been
assumed.
Want Water Rights Defined.
1T is recommended that. wherever
possible steps be taken 10 secure an
early adjudication of water rights ON all
projects where such adjudlcalions have
not yet been made, and that pending such
action. expenditures be kept within the