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Show ENGINEERS NAMED TO MAKE SURVEY OF UTAH DAMSITE Personnel of the committee appointed appoint-ed by H S. Kerr, president of the Utah Society of Engineers, to investigate investi-gate the economic feasibility of Utah damsites, was announced Saturday by Ralf R. Wboley, secretary of the state society. Seven prominent mining, consulting and hydraulic engineers were chosen on the committee which will report back to the association at its November Novem-ber meeting. They are: Leland Kimball, Kim-ball, Salt Lake engineer; E. H Bur-dick, Bur-dick, consulting geologist for Utah; Joseph F. Merrell, former director of the school of mines and engineering at the University of Utah and at present superintendent of L. D. S. church schools; F. H. Richardson, district manager of the Portland Cement association; as-sociation; T. H Tracy, executive director di-rector of the Utah Industrial Development Devel-opment league; R. R. Lyman, member mem-ber of the Los Angeles aqueduct consulting con-sulting board, and L. D. Anderson, chief engineer, United States Smelting Refining and Mining company. The committee, whose purpose is to study all the possibilities of dam sites on the Colorado river in Utah, will pay particular attention to Flaming Gorge, Turley and the Dewey sites. Besides making a though investigation investiga-tion of the dam possibilities of the sites, the committee will determine what can be done with them. ap,r through the entire body of the society inaugurate a move for development of the sites. i Contrary to earlier reports, the Committee Com-mittee was not Appointed to ascertain whether the site proposed by Captain Jay Turley, New Mexico engineer, at the junction of the San Juan and the Colorado rivers, would be better for a dam than the one selected in Black canyon. No substitute for the Black canyon site will be offered by the company, com-pany, Mr. Wooley said, for the reason rea-son the group is not in a position to make a survey from Nevada to California, Cali-fornia, which would be necessary to obtain all the data. |