Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-12-30 | Page 6 | Report Cites Plans on River Projects |

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Date	1946-12-30
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Report Cites Plans on River Projects
Type	article
Date	1946-12-30
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	6
OCR Text	Show Report Cites Plans On River Projects Outlining 134 potential Colorado river basin projects In Utah. Colo rado. Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming, the Bureau Bu-reau of Reclamation In 8alt Lake City Monday had iaaued a report designed primarily to acquaint member of congress with power, irrigation and flood control potentialities poten-tialities in the basin. Of the total. 28 potential projects proj-ects are entirely within Utah and six are shared by Utah with adjoining ad-joining states. The report, stating that most of the projects would serve multiple mul-tiple purposes, pointed out the urgency ur-gency of making full use of the water in the basin and visualized the conversion of "thousands of additional acres of sagebrush desert des-ert to flourishing farms and beautiful beau-tiful homes." -
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