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Show . . - . . . - - . . - Leave on Colorado River Basin BasinDevelopment BasinDevelopment BasinDevelopment Development Inspection Trip I representing For the purpose of represent Ing educational educabonal Grand county on an educa bonal tional Coloradoriver trip down the Colorado Colorad ( ) tripit river nver as a result of which trIp It is expected that Utah s pro gram program for the utilization of Itsshare itsshare its ; basinwaters share of Colorado river baSIn waters decidedC will largely be decIded C S Thomson Grand county advIsor countyadvisor of the Utah Water Users Usersassociation assocIation and County Com Corn CommISSIoner Cornmissioner Cornmissioner mISSIoner G 0 Patterson left Tuesday leftTuesday CityAt evening evenmg for Cedar CIty At that point pomt they were sched scheduled scheduled scheduled uled to meet other Utah offIcIals offIcIalsand officialsand officialsand and proceed southward as far- far faras faras far-as far as - - as the Republic of Mexico gomg going by goingby gomgby - way - of L Ls Le - ee - - s - sJ'erry sJerry Ferry P'rvv Prvv - ' ' ---oJ oJ - ' - ' h- h .w w . , - , , _ - - - - - - - - - .w w . ---oJ oJ ' _ . . . ' Among Am6ng otherswho others who it t was ex expected expected expected pected would make the tnp trip tripwere tnpwere were Byron Howard of Huntmg Hunting Huntington Huntmgton ton Horace Allred Ailred of Roosevelt Rooseveltand Rooseveltand Rooseveltand and W A Mathis of St George Georgerepresenting Georgerepresentmg representmg representing the eastern and andsouthern andsouthern andsouthern southern Utah district of the Water theWater WilliamR WIlhamR Users association WIlham William R Wallace chairman of the as asSOCIatIon association association SOCIatIon Ora Bundy state pub publicity pubIIcIty IIcIty licity development and industrial mdustrIal develop ment commissioner and newly elected newlyelected chairman of the National NationalReclamation ReclamatIon association Henry HenryPlumhoff Plumhoff state publicity publlClty and In an mdustnal Industnal andustrial dustnal dustrial development comIDJS commis comIDJSslOner commissioner comnussioner slOner sioner T W Jensen secretary ofSouthern of secretaryof the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern othersIt Utah and others It is the plan of the group to tomake tomake tomake make a thorough study of re reclamatiori reclamation development clamatiori and power develop ment in m the southern basm basin basmparticularly basinparticularly basinparticularly particularly as it affects the thependmg thepending thepending pendmg pending treaty between the Um Urn Umted Urnted United ted States and Mexico as to a dIvIsion adivision of the Colorado rIver rIverwaters riverwaters waters It is also hoped that as asa asa asa a result of the trip tnp the vanous various vanousUtah variousUtah Utah variousUtah representatives will agree agreeon agreeon agreeon on a program for reclamatIon reclamatIonand reclamationarid reclamationand and arid power development in m thIsstate thisstate this thisstate state stateAt At _ the therecent _ recent national reclam ation atlon atiori association conference at atDenver atDenver atDenver Denver it was learned that the theconstruction theconstruction theconstruction construction of Dewey dam m in mGrand inGrand mGrand Grand bythe county was favored by the U S reclamation service as asthe asthe asthe the No 1 project for power and andreclamatIon andreclamation andreclamation reclamatIon development in the thestate thestate thestate state of Utah It is the hope of ofthe ofthe ofthe representatives the Grand county representa tIves on the trip that all of the theUtah theUtah theUtah Utah interests may be consolI consolIdated consolidated consolidated dated in m an effort to promote the theconstruction theconstruction theconstruction construction of Dewey dam damFor damFor damFor For the past two or more yearsreclamatIon yearsreclamation years yearsB clamation reclamatIon service and U S SgeologIcal Sgeological S'ological Sological geologIcal B ' survey engineers engmeers have havemade havemade haveade made exhaustive surveys of sev sevral sevral sevral ral damsite damslte on the Colorado btween b bItween Itween tween Moab and Dewey to as assemble assenible assemble semble senible data to determine the thebest thebest thebest best site for d cI i dam WhICh WhIChwould whichwould whichwould would be designed for power powerpurposes powerpurposes powerpurposes purposes flood control silt con control control control trol and reclamation It is un understood understood understood derstood that most of this pre limmary prelinnnary prelimmary engineering engmeermg has been beencompleted beencompleted beencompleted completed and that the reclama reclamatIon reclamation reclamation tIon service soon will vill recom reconu recommend reconumend recommend mend a site It is learned that thatthe thatthe thatthe the heavy cost of moving the theDenver theDenver theDenver Denver & Rio Grande Western WesternIraIlroad Westernrailroad Westernrailroad railroad at Cisco and the remov removal removal removal IraIlroad al and recon reconstruction tructIon of hIgh hIghway highway highway way No 60 m In that area WhIchwould whichwould which would become necessary If the theDewey theDewey Dewey dam were constructed at atItS atits atits ItS original orIgmal site at Dewey Deweyprompted , . prompted the survey of other othersites othersites othersites sites lower on the river nver The Thelowest Thelowest Thelowest lowest thelhead of these sites is at the the thehead ! head of the canyon just be-- be be- below below be below - - low Moab Should this dam be beconstructed beconstructed beconstructed constructed Moab valley wouldbe wouldbe would wouldbe be covered with several hundred hundredfeet hundredfeet hundredfeet feet of waters water , , _ |