Show MilliONS I i fOR DAM WORK Reclamation S Service Will Employ Many any Men in River Project Tho Tile old proposed dam darn and reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir which the United States reclamation mation service planned to construct on the tho Colorado river below the tho mouth of the Grand and Green rivers h has s been beon abandoned and two new sites for dams one on tho the Green river liver and ono one on the Colorado are being surveyed and drilled for tor bed bed- rock In tho the event that proper bedrock bedrock bed bed- rock is found the tho reclamation service will spend several million dollars in constructing these dams to harness barness the flow of the Colorado river and supply power for the generation of electricity This news has been brought to Salt Lake by John F F. Richardson reclamation mation engineer for the government who is in charge of ot the work of surveying sur sur- eying and drilling for the proposed government dams in southern Utah lIe He admits that bedrock was was' not found at a a. practicable distance below the surface in tho old Colorado river site its and aid says that in one one sito site bedrock has already dy been found at a a. distance that will assure a a. safe dam darn Tho Th latter Is true on the Colorado river rt In Sn Hore Horseshoe hoo canyon nyon near Flaming gorge gor-ge Just across the Utah line In n that location location location loca loca- loca- loca tion Is s. It proposed to erect a dam darn feet reet high capable of ot storing tho the runoff of ot tho stream which government geo geological survey sur sur- veT vey water branch officials s have estimated at acre feet et The other site elte which is to be Investigated Investigated gated this week Is la located on the Green river at a R point known a at as Maud several miles above the tho town of ot Green Gren lUv r. r A A. large corps of or engineers and have O already been dispatched to that that point Engineers era familiar with that 4 country state that bedrock will wUl likely bo be I found lound close enough to tho the surface and that 1 there Is a natural reservoir reser alto at that polut This proposed dam darn if built bunt will also be bo JOO f feet teel et high and will be ba made ca capable ble of at C storing tori g even en more water than th the tho one one ne neon on tho the Colorado below It Is explained that man many important streams run tun Into the Green Grcen below this point and also alo below be be- low Jow th the tho Junction of oC the Grand Gr-antl and Green where those two streams form the tho Cob Colo rado tAdo Under tho the old plan It was hoped to to erect a reservoir just below the tho mouth of or the two streams capable of oC storing aero acre feet but It Is now believed that the tho two will do tho the proper storing effectively It Is la understood that the two will cost coat more mora than the ono one larger on one however The rhe erection of oC these dams will mean the ex expenditure of oC a V vast sum In Utah and tho the employment of or thousands of ormen men It n will be one of ol th tho most Important reclamation undertakings s the government Jm bias lias commenced In man many years year The d dams will iU serve a a. threefold purpose It Is sla stated ted prevent ent the Colorado from Crom flooding land landIn landIn landin In its HI lower valleys and ancI destroying thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or dollars worth of ot crops as It now Iou does to S each Ch season Irrigate tt millions of oC arid acres In Utah and Arizona and develop hydro electric power for tor Utah |