Show GOVERNMENT T TO n CONSTRUCT DAMS IN UtAH w Reclamation C I Millions Is Ia to to Ahe Ahead d Soon HINT IS ISo o r r Men Are on Wi W to Green een River and Grand RiV River r Secretary lAnes lAne's made In an Interview given wh n he passed through Ogden that the work of the will be carried out for tor the benefit of the West and that California Is Isto isto to be protected from Inundations of the corora o river mean he construction construction con con- ot of two and amI possibly three big government dams In Utah These it has hns been estimated will cost several million dollars Such Is the conclusion drawn tol- tol lowing authority received yesterday by E. E A A. A Porter engineer In charge ot of the water resources branch of the United States geologIcal ve sui-ve survey to send end men Immediately to proposed on the Green Grcen and Grand rivers T esc rivers join and form the Colorado and to harness the Jat- Jat latter lat lat- tex ter stream they must be dammed May Report at Once The geological survey rs' rs according to Mr Porter will be be au to investigate atc an and m make ke lin immediate im- im mediate reports on the tha water wafer resources resources re- re sources and stream measurements at atthe atthe the proposed darn dam sites 1 Mr Porter assumes th that t ono or orth of th the darns dams will be ba built at Flam Flaming nG Gorge In Utah on th the preen Green river near the Wyoming line hine This site according to engineers of the reclamation service who have Inv Investigated In- In v I It Is Ideal as far as bedrock bedrock bed bed- rock and other conditions are concerned con con- for an Immense lam dam J w. w Jordan ordan en engineer ot of the local 01 the tho gel gi al al' al vC leave at t once for the Flaming O Gorge Other engineers will be sent t to tho mouth or of the Green river to the Grand Orand river mouth and to the San SanJuan SanJuan Juan river near near Medicine Hat Indians Indiana May Give Trouble Inasmuch as most of oC the trouble with l the o Indians has been In the vicinity ot of the tho latter place Mr Portor Por- Por tor first Investigate to determine whether one of his men can get through to the San Juan site The FlaminG Gorge site has shown possibilities for a a. dam oo feet high h and capable or of storing acre acro feet of water Tine The erection of these dams which Secretary Lanes Lane's st state state- te- te merit ment seems to make assured will mean the tho employmentS of thousands of oC men and the expenditure of oC vast sums Bums in In Utah It will make possible the reclamation or of millions of arid land will dc more hydro hydro-elec- trio power and will prevent tIm tho anI annual an- an nual flooding or of the California valleys val val- I bye leys by by- by the tho Colorado river |