Show I Governors of Utah and Wyoming W Visit Flaming Gorge Dam Site Officials of ot two states and of or the Utah Power and amid Light company made a trip last Monday to the Flaming Gorge power site of that c company on the Green river where crosses the Wyoming line into Utah Governor Mabey I bey who has long expressed expressed ex ex- pressed an interest t in the l rind and nd a a desire to visit the site Governor Gov- Gov Governor Governor Gov Gov- C. C B. B Ross of oC Wyoming ng Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Reed Smoot Lloyd Garrison representing representing representing rep rep- resenting the state engineers engineer's office a representative of the state engineers engineer's engineers engineer's engineers engineer's engi engi- neer's office In W Wyoming oming and other state officials w were re among the guests Power development on the Green river at the Flaming gorge rese reservoir voh site as proposed and n now being in investigated investigated investigated in- in by the Utah Power Light company is one of the big bits of Industrial development now before the people of Utah said Governor Governor Gov Gov- Mabey on on l his Ills return from a a adsit visit to the site of the proposed res res- A dam feet feet above th the pr present ent I level of the water in Horseshoe canyon canyon can can- can I yon just below the Flaming gorge c canyon nyon would impound about bout 2 feet acre of the waters of or the Green river and would permit tb the development at th that t site ste alone of or about horsepower for usen use in n tI the e territory r reached a hed b by the preSent present pres present preS- preS ent lines of the big power company as well Yell as in western V Wyoming oming Not only th that but a reservoir of that capacity would permit the regulation regulation regula regula- tion of ot the flow of the Green river for additional power plants for Cor w which lich sites are believed believe to to tobe be available available avail avail- of able all the way way to Green Riv River r Utah and which would develop a total otal of something like I horsepower Within three years after the issuance issuance ance of ot a permit by the tho federal power pow pow- er commission for the construction of or the Flaming gorge gorge plant plan it is estimated estimated es- es that between and w would be expended in iii n the construction of the plant and connecting it with tho system system tem lem of power lines Industrial Inch Progress f The trip to the Flaming gorge si site was conducted by Utah Power Light com company pan officials at the I in- in 1 sta ce of Governor Mabey who limas has long been interested in the site andis aldis and ald andis is worming working to bring about Its development development development devel devel- las as as an import important nt step in in the ind industrial progress s of the state stalo stale also 1 being eing Interested in the project bo both h territorially lly and beca because lse of 01 its In- In n- n possibilities Fifty Men Ien at Work od The Flaming g gorge gore takes l. l S i its s name name um I from from the coloring of th tine the ro rocks ks on nn one side and presents pi e scenery somewhat ia in the time nature of or that found in such wonderfully elaborated elaborated elaborated orated detail n n southern Utah Th The Horseshoe canyon below it was as found by the visitors t to be he much more morer r rising perpendicularly anywhere entrancing with its sheer rock walls from 1200 to 2000 feet clad In places with greenery and on top with tor forests Above all was a sky o of a serene blue made rem remarkable by uy y contrast with the coloring of the canyon walls In the Horseshoe canyon the tho visitors visitors visitors tors found a party of about fitt fifty men engaged by the company to drill various places in the canyon to as ascertain ascertain as- as certain the tho nature nature of time the rock to tomake tomake make surveys and to a assemble other data of an engineering nature necessary necessary necessary essary before the investment of or thereat the tho great reat a amount of money required can be be PI authorized The The company officials s say say y that this work ork is bein being prosecuted ed just as rapidly as possible though it will will willbe be some sOm months yet before beforetime the time suitability of f the various possible possible ble sites siles for a a a- adam dam can be deter deter- l mined As already indicated the topographical topographical topographical surveys indicate that thata a a dam darn rah raising the the water at l fe feet a above JOve its ts present l level vel would back the waters vaters' of f the Green up for about sixty miles to near Green River Wyo and the re reservoir would be he about acres in area impounding fe feet acre t when the reservoir is fill fill- dd od l. l At one place the canyon walls at t the height of feet above the water tire are only about feet apart Three diamond drills are at work testing the nature of orthe the bedrock on which the structure must rest rest 1 People Olic Await Power Powel Of the lands inundated by the thep p proposed tits r r reservoir r r the major major v poi por portion i Lion ion of the arable area is in Utah rather than In n Wyoming A considerable considerable consid consid- erable crable por portion of ot course is on the present bed of the stream and In the box canyons L The people of 01 Daggett county it was ascertained by br the governor hi are e eagerly awaiting power development e river on on the end will not be inclined to to throw obstacles in tl the lie e way ivay va of such an en en- That newest c county of tah t has a PP population o of a around 1 or 01 persons Its present assessed assessed as as- valuation Js is In n the neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood of With the placing I there there of a a pla plant t such as is proposed the the CO county COy y w would uld become among the the chest richest in as s assessed ossed d' d valuation a per capita of inhabitants of any county 4 11 n th the I United States y N |