Show vr MUST t rC x iii ho e t Ii ku SAYS GOV i MAW Mw ll H Despite its Ita multi million i d dol dal lar mar cost must fight for forthe forthe the Central Utah project It la is isa a solid lOUd approach to a hither higher standard of living Jiving liviD for every pet per perI I son living in the state as well wen as asto asto to development of great new benefits to the nation said Governor Herbert B Maw in an article More Power to Utah written for the periodical The Reclamation Era for February He declared that Utah needs heeds a new supply of water and needs it badly Without new water then the th industrial giant In the making is to going to bump his head against the Inexorable ceiling of 01 limited water supply water for manufacturing water for domestic use by Utah's Uta s 's new Inhabitants This new water he said can come only from one source source source- the Colorado River Basin Utah has a rightful share in the waters of the Colorado he pointed out and well within that share is the feet acre which can be bebr brought br into the Great Salt Lake Basin by means meats of the Central project project a a plan for col col- col collecting the waters that flow south from the Uinta mountains Into a mile conduit emptying empty empty- emptyIng ing by gravity flow into the Strawberry Reservoir a plain that contemplates construction tion of a vast new dam on the Green GrCen river at Echo Park miles upstream from Boulder 27 miles east of Vernal He pointed out that In all ap ap- proximately acres a of land will wUl benefit from the pro pr thus making Irrigation de de the chief purpose purpose In m justifying the millions of dollars that must b spent for or jest Jed construction Counting acres acrea of new newland land that could be irrigated in inthe the Basin acres of the above total could be ir for the first first time under the CUP acres receiving ing InI supplementary water wa r |