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Show CUTLER WILL INSPECT WMM PROJECT Believes There Is Opportunity in Strawberry Valley to Re- . claim Rich Area. Governor Cutler expects to leave tlic city Friday on a tour of Inspection of the great Strawberry valley Irrigation project, pro-ject, which Is destined to reclaim' a lare area of land in Utah and other counties. Govornor Cutler not only believes that the project will result In great good In tho way of land reclamation, but ho also Is of tho 'opinion that It may solve tho prohloni of power In the valley on this side ol llio mountain range, inrougn which tho 19.000-foot tunnel will pass. At the point where the tunnel starts, tho altitude h? 9000 foot, while It will only be -IfjOO feet whore It comes out on this sldo '-f tho ranre. K ThiH appeals to Governor Cutler as a powcr-phint. proposition IhnU should not be overlooked and ho believes that tho generation of electricity from this tunnel tun-nel will do much toward cheapening Ihe power used by manufacturing Industries. The Governor Is much In favor of utlllr.-Inpr utlllr.-Inpr streams for the purposes of generating generat-ing electricity for manufacturing purposes, pur-poses, In orrlor to do away with the ne-cowslty ne-cowslty for tho use of proat amounts of coal at the prevailing high prices. Upon this subject, -the Governor said: Eoom For Groat Plant. "In this Strawberry project alone there Is room for a great power plant at the tunnel"!! mouth, anrl for several more before be-fore the water reaches Its final level. I am informed that the construction of nt least one plant will bo undertaken by tho Government to pump the water from a level whoro it will roach 00.000 acres, to a higher canal from which 10,000 more will be Irrigated. "Rut this stream Is not the only one vet lo bo utilized that offers power advantages. ad-vantages. Why has City Creek canyon been overlooked? It would support two, or possibly three, power plants. In American Amer-ican Fork canyon I happen to. be acquainted ac-quainted with two' plants, one of 750 horsepower at the mouth, and one of 1250 horsepower farther up. Power from these plants Is to bo taken right across the valley for uso at Jesse Knight's new smelters. "Streams 1 think of off-hand that afford af-ford opportunities of Inestimable value In helping out the Industrial situation are Parley's canyon, Big Cottonwood, Jn spite of the fact that two altos arc already utilized; Llttlo Cottonwood, whore threo plant's could' easily be Installed, Alpine. Ualtle creek, Provo, Spanish Fork, and , Hcveral canyons still further south." |