Show the future utah s place in in it report of the utah water and power board today the state of utah proud of its past looks to it its future the passage of years has not lessened the deeply rooted de cle sire of its people for the full realization of the values of the resources of their state As a community of american people know the states destiny is oart dart of the whole C there ther e I 1 Is B I 1 no dore pre P re provincialism to spur instead there Is firm realization that as p part rt of the western country utah ulah utah ulah must share joint responsibility for providing opportunity for a 1 growing population for the de of resources needed for the gat hat national ional lonai security and for the rounding out of a stable economy the expansion of the nation in peace and in war has had definite impact upon the re sources required to maintain free enterprise in the pursuit of hap nao nap and security the richness of the continent its mantle of forest its rolling acres the wide rivers the wealth of hidden min brals seemed to provide excuse for profligacy in the use of its natural resources today there is somber realization that nothing Is inexhaustible which is not i wisely used and developed for i the common good 1 the ravages of erosion in the united states swee sweeping ng acres of top lop soi oll L io the ocearl oceail each year demand the e develop I 1 ant of new fresh lands to re place those whose fertility has become marginal through mis misi 1 use fire insects disease and the I 1 lum bermans ax have reduced forests to a mere fraction of what the pioneers encountered I 1 in their conquest of the nation I 1 no effort wort may now be great enough to bring about a sustained crop of lumber soon enough to meet the nations minimum requirements reserves of petroleum are now thought to have reached a crit leai leal stage of depletion calli calling for major imports from distant la lands ads a andl mil for cor hero herd heroin effort to develop commercial technology to wrest liquid fuels from coal and oil in practically bucall y every category of minerals important to our modern indus industrial triai trial economy there is in creasing evidence that the domestic commercial reserves are arc drawing down to a level which necessitates accelerated esplor exploration and large programs of research on the utilization of minera mineral eral erni grades hitherto unacceptable to industry |