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Show Spotlighting I UTAH Twenty billion kilowatt hours of electric power are going to waste annually on the Colorado Colo-rado river system, the U. S. bureau of reclamation reports to' Washington after an extensive exten-sive study of the river's resources-Two and one-half million acres of land could be irrigated if the Colorado was brought under control, the. report disclosed. dis-closed. There are approximately 4400 miles of the Colorado in Utah. The report carrying some 400 pages, is titled: "The Colorado Colo-rado River A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource." Taking a long view of the potentialities po-tentialities of the mighty river, reclamation bureau visions the river channel turned into a great stairway of reservoirs extending extend-ing up stream from Parker dam on the boundary between Arizona Arizo-na and California, and on through Arizona, Nevada, Utah and into Wyoming and Colorado. Colo-rado. In most cases each dam would back reservoir water to the toe of the dam next upstream. up-stream. Branches of the stairway stair-way would reach up the San Juan, Green and Yampa rivers. "Utahns who have any imagination imag-ination at all, should be . able to visualize an empire in the southern part of this state that will outshine anything ever dreamed of by the founders of this great "Beehive Commonwealth." Common-wealth." MELONS POPULAR More than one million cantaloupes can-taloupes with the distinctive "Green River" valley flavor, filling fill-ing 87 refrigerator cars were shipped from Green River this summer; Chicago markets took them all. Developed by the S. N. Wilson family, :the cantaloupe business in that vicinity is exceeding ex-ceeding all expectations. MOAB SPEAKS UP L. L. Taylor, editor of. the Moab Times-Independent aptly echoes this writer's opinion when in a timely editorial discussing dis-cussing southeastern Utah's scenic wonders, he asks this question, "Beautiful, But Can You Reach them?" Boiled down, his editorial calls attention to the fact that next year's tourists will travel by automobile. "Why then," he asks, "do we have unrivaled scenic attractions with almost impossible roads leading to them." He mentions the Arches National Monument and Monument Valley as examples. ex-amples. The most significant statement in the entire editorial editor-ial is the following line: "This is something for highway officials of-ficials of Utah to consider in any postwar road construction program pro-gram they may be contemplating." |