Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-27 | Page 9 | Solons to See Colorado River

SOlONS TO SEE COlORADO RIVERS RIVER I Inspection S Trip 0 of Month Planned I ILOS' ILOS LOS LOS LOS' ANGELES Oct 27 21 AP AP I AP-I The official inspection trip of the Colorado river rl by the senate Irrigation I I tion and reclamation committee in including including in- in in-I in I public hearings extending over a a. month will take lane the party I I I through one of the greatest and I grandest water courses of the earth The Colorado river as the Nile of ot North America according to to E. E C. C Larue geological survey engineer has the greatest potentialities potentialities poten poten- I I of any river on the continent continent conti conti- I nent of ot North Korth America with the exception of the St St. Lawrence I I I This 1700 mlle stretch passes passes- through a basin of square I I miles an area nearly as large as at Minnesota 1 Wisconsin Iowa Illinois I and Missouri combined and comprising comprising comprising com com- portions of ot Wyoming Utah Colorado Nevada Arizona New Mexico California and Lower Cali Call I fornia The fall taU of ot the Colorado is i feet teet Within the basin there is an Irrigable area of 6 acres and prospective waterpower development for tor electrical energy of to horsepower 60 per cent load factor Installed ca capacity ca- ca I I Seven states are deeply concerned In the future development of of the river owing to exhaustive government government government govern govern- ment surveys and reports which show that there is not sufficient water water water wa wa- ter supply in the basin to reclaim all of the irrigable acreage and in indica indications in- in dica are that acres must remain as desert forever Mr Larue pioneer research engineer engi engl neer of the Colorado who accompanies accompanies I the senatorial party said sala that there Is special need for tor conservation conservation con con- conJ J in order to prevent waste He has defined some fifty possible below the Junction of the Green and Colorado rivers in Utah I one-fourth one of ot which he says will be needed for full fun development of the to horsepower of electrical energy based on 60 per percent percent percent cent load factor installed capacity available In this section of the basin Every Evely detail regarding these sites must be analyzed and a comprehensive sive s1 plan made for development of ot the river before any individual project project project pro pro- is considered in order to obtain a maximum use of the rivers river's re resources resources resources re- re sources for fOl power and irrigation Larue says I I Some plans for tor development and reclamation have been suggested sa says s 's Mr Larue that would cause causo waste of to hors horsepower horsepower horse horse- I 1 power ower due to evaporation losses be because be- be cause of ot the area of water surface I exposed This also means mean that an anarea area put to waste by this loss In I evaporation would be acres I which would remain desert forever