| Show 0 t I t TO TO C CONSTRUCT tr DAMS 1 Reclamation Work to Cost Coat t 1 Millions Mil Mil- l- l lions Is to Go A lead Soon li as Possible 0 i I J f Secretary han IJane's e es e's statement made in in an int interview w given n when he passed through Ogden that Ogden that the reclamation tion won wo work k of f th the government gov gov- will b be carried carriedo c i- i o out ut for the b benefit n 4 f the the West and that and that California is is to be pr tested protected te ted from inundation o orado of tJi the Colorado Colo Colo- rado river river means means th the e construction tion of two two and and possibly three big hig go government darns dam in in Utah These it has beer i estimated ted TO will will 3 j I oSt ost sever several million dollars dollar t I J Such is the conclusion d drawn i E E. E folI T A A. owing owing- A K authority Y re rece c e av edby by byi Porter Forter en engineer in i in n charge of f fv the water resources branch of the T United States States' geol geological survey to send men immediate te b ly y to to proposed da ms tte tes on on I the Gr Green e and pd Grand rivers These se rivers join loin and form the Colo Colorado rado grid and nd to harness th the latter stream they must musti be e.- e. q dammed I The geological survey engineers engi engi- peers according to Mr Mr- Porter will be authorized authored r to investigate gate and m make ke immediate reports reports re re- ports on the water resources and stream at the proposed proposed pro pro- posed dam sites sites- Mr Mr- Porter assumes that one one of the the- dams will be built at Flam Flaming Blaming ng- ng Gorge in no northern Utahan Utah an t the f Gr Green en riv river r near the Utah Wyoming Utah ing line line- This site rte a according cording It to engineers of the reel reclamation rec ree- l mation s 's service who investigated in- in vest g fed it i is s ideal as l far as it bedrock and other conditions conditions' ons' ons are are areco r co concerned for an an immense dam J. J W W- Jordan engineer of the local lo aJ office of the geological geologic cal sur urvey ur- ur vey win will leave at once t for r tle Flaming J Gorge Gorge- Other engineers Will be sent nt tr to the mi i n F r T 4 i A v. v 0 Green river to the Grand river mouth m uth and to the San Juan river near Medicine l l Hat Hat- at Salt Lake T Telegram Telegram- n |
