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Show STATE ASKED TO AID FARM SURVEY The I "tah state council of defense and various other agencies are asked to lend their assistance to the passage of a measure through congress looking to the appropriation hy the 1'ntted Slates government gov-ernment of $1,000,000 to make surveys of farms for returning soldiers. The request came yesterday in a telegram to Arch . M. Thurman, secretary of the state council coun-cil of defense, from Washington. The receipt of the telegram Is believed to have an important bearing on the Colorado river drainage basin project, for which plans are already being formulated In I'tah and other states of the southwest. south-west. A few weokM ago Governor Bamberger, Bam-berger, with the approval of Wan kiln K. Lane, secretary of the Interior, called a meeting of prominent interests in Utah to get this project into definite shape for presentation to similar committees in other states, asking their approval and support. The project, according to ; prelim inury estimates already made by 'government hvdrographlc survey men, would Involve the expenditure of f 150,000.000 to $200.-000.000. $200.-000.000. It would furnish water to irrigate irri-gate something like 4.000.000 acres, ot which filo.OOo would be areas In I'tah still in the arid state. A by-product of something some-thing like 1,609,000 horsepower in hydroelectric hydro-electric energy Is part of t lie general plan. An executive committee agpolnted at the meeting called by Governor Bamberger Bam-berger Is nt work on details of the plan, which will be submit ted to other states In the near future. States directly interested inter-ested in the project are Utah. Colorado, Wvomlng. Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and California |