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Show If EY URGES BOULDER Mi INVESTIGATION Proposal of Vital Interest to Southern Utah Explained Explain-ed at C. of C. Meeting Here Last Monday Night Captain Jay Turley, New Mexico Mex-ico engineer, who is enlisting swiport throughout the southwest in a proposal that an investigation investiga-tion be made of the feasibility of a dam in southern Utah below tte junction of the San Juan river in Glen canyon before work is started on the Boulder dam, met with the chamber of commerce com-merce Monday night and explained explain-ed the plan in detail. In Los Angeles, Mr. Turley says, a group of influential men, who organized themselves into an in-tr-state conservancy association, have practically defeated the idea of the high pump lift which would be necessary to get water to Los Angeles and southern California Cali-fornia from the Black canyon site. They are working for any plan which would give the city a supply sup-ply of water by gravity, and this, Captain Turley claims, the San Juan dam in Glen canyon would do. . ' According to Mr. Turley the net advantages to be gained by all of the interested states if - the change were made would be many times as great were the dam built at the Utah site instead of at Black canyon. His idea is that by the adoption of a resolution by congress a change can be made if the investigation proves the Utah site has advantages. The specific advantages of the San Juan damsite in Utah over the Black canyon site, according to Captain Turley, are: It would give approximately nine; times the capacity of the Black canyon project at the same cost. The San Juan dam would allow the diversion of the water at an elevation of about 4000 feet or approximately ap-proximately 3000 feet higher than the Nevada site. This additional elevation would mean a gravity flow to Los Angeles, An-geles, the canal following a route through southern Utah passing not far from St. George. It would mean the generation of about 3,-000,000 3,-000,000 horsepower or about six times as much as could be generated gen-erated in Black canyon. This power could be generated on the Virgin river for Utah and Nevada, near the city limits of Los Angeles for southern California Califor-nia and in the central part of Arizona for that state, eliminating eliminat-ing the very serious problem of trnnc;,.,.! .iikilJlllLHIUll, The increased elevation of the Point of diversion would vastly increase the acreage of land which could be reclaimed in Utah, Ari-lona, Ari-lona, Nevada and California. The San Juan dam would back the water up a distance of 300 miles and give Utah a total of WO miles of navigable streams. The San Juan dami would eliminate the silt problem by diverting di-verting the stream out of the Grand canyon where most of the silt originates. Pointing out the specific advances advan-ces the plan offers to Utah, Captain Turley declared that over ltoOO.000 horsepower of electrical energy could toe developed near the wart of southern Utah's Iron de-JXK'ts; de-JXK'ts; that additional land would nuie available for reclamation d that some $200,000,000 would j K spent in Utah. With the support of local interests in-terests he is attempting to or-Pmizc or-Pmizc an inter-state water con-wrv&ncy con-wrv&ncy association to cooperate; v''n the California body in se- i cur'"iS the change. j |