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Show LA RUE WILL SPEAK 1 Oil RIMOBLEMS Hydraulic Engineer to Give Lecture at Consolidated Music Hall Friday E C La R e hydraulic engineer for , the United States geolog cal sur ey i will speak at a meeting of the Utah Society of Engineers in the Consol s dated mus c hall next Friday n ght H 8 subject will be Colorado B ver Prob lems The Colorado river dra ns an area of 244 000 square miles and the area af fected ncludes the states of Utah Wyom ncr Colorado Kew Mexico An zona Nevada and Cal f orn a and also part of Hex co Mr La Eue plans to descr be briefly the irr gat on water power and storage poss bil t es of the river s bas n The water supply in the Colorado r ver bas n is suffic ent to reclaim about 7 000 000 acres ultin ately sa d Mr La Eue yesterday There are many large reservo r s tes in the basm n Utah and Colorado 'When these reBer to r s tes are ut 1 zed for the control of the lower Colorado t will be poss ble to develop several mill on horsepower 1 ; Dur ng the past year Mr La Eue has i covered about 400 miles of the canyons of the Green Grand and Colorado r ers Row boats and motor boats were used in mak ng the tr ps Manv inter i t est ng picti res were taken and he w 11 illustrate h s talk with colored lantern . r slides made from h s photographs |