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Show Utah County Gets Greatest Benefits From Upper Colorado River Project By S. E. Price, Chairman of Education Committee The above headline tells a story in itself but by giving the detail, as far as can be given at the present, will clear any doubts. The Universitv of Utah is mak- ing a study of the indirect benefits, and benefits that will accrue to our economy which will be published publish-ed in April. This should be very interesting and of great national importance. The present plan'is for the Central Cen-tral Utah project to be first, or among the first of the work on this great development. Such being the case our contractors, machinists, mechanics, service stations, motels, mo-tels, and all public services will be jammed from the first "go ahead" sign. Here is why listing the items in about their order of importance to residents of Utah county. 1. Between thirty thousand and forty thousand acres of land will be reclaimed. Much of the land reclaimed re-claimed will be of the finest, es-pecialy es-pecialy good for intensive agriculture. agricul-ture. Aside from the land to be re- claimed, there will be supplemental water for lands now only partially irrigated. There will be ample water and power for municipalities and industrial in-dustrial development. This could become our greatest asset. 3. Five large power plants will be installed. A series of dams, tunnels tun-nels and a marvelous canal system will be constructed before the pro- -ject is finished. 4. Our lake will be dyked and made clean fresh water. According Accord-ing to engineers, over half the water going out of Utah Lake goes out by evaporation. But by cutting down the surface and increasing the depth of the water as is proposed pro-posed in this project, this evaporation evapor-ation will be cut to less than half. That alone would irrigate thousands thous-ands of acres of land or furnish water for great industrial expansion. expan-sion. 5. The largest and finest recreational recrea-tional program in the world is a part of these plans. Not only will Echo Dam be made into a national playground but recreational facilities facili-ties around our Utah Lake and in our canyons will be many fold. 6. It will nearily double the tax rolls of this county. By this addition addi-tion of assessable property, our tax burden should be lessened materially, ma-terially, our schools and teachers incomes should be put on. the highest high-est national level. 7. It will lessen our support of the Indians and those who are dependent de-pendent upon welfare. As the San Juan is developed, 125,000 acres of land will be irrigated, making the Navajo Indians much less dependent depen-dent and partially fulfilling some of our government's promises to them. National honor will be partially par-tially satisfied. Employment will be at a peak and workers should be able to accumulate sufficient so that those with family pride need (Continued on page 2) Utah County ; Gets Benefit from Colorado (continued from page 1) never go onto the welfare rolls, And one thing especially fine, this development will be over .such a long period that our oncoming, gen-erations gen-erations should be able to find ample employment at home so thej will not have to leave their people their way of life, their friends, anc religion. Our money spent for education ed-ucation would accrue to our owr rather than for our young people to go into the world, taking the jobs of others, and giving the outside out-side world the benefit of the monej we here spend for the education ol our young people. 8. It will almost eliminate oui drainage problems. Water frorr soggy spots will drain out and be dumped into the lake. ' 9. It will eliminate and or lessen les-sen expenses of flood control. 10. Other dirct benefits are toe numerous to list. |