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Show Possibilities of Virgin River Project Discussed Speaking before the Rotary club last Friday, Wayne Cahoon, who has been in this section making a survey of the Virgin river from the standpoint of storage for irrigation, ir-rigation, silt control and power site, reported that the studies made to date would indicate that the project is feasible, but is questionable from the standpoint of paying off under the provisions set up by the Federal government. He explained that in order for the government to put up funds for the project under the Reclamation Recla-mation Act provisions that it must show possibilities of being self-liquidating self-liquidating within a predetermined number of years. He said under the provisions of the act, it is questionable whether this project would be acceptable. He went on to point out that the project had many things to recommend it and that it might be possible to get money appropriated appropri-ated for it through an Act of Congress after the war. He stated that it was a fine project from a social standpoint for this section, sec-tion, that it would control silt to a degree and thus help to lengthen the life of Boulder Dam, and that due to the fact that products, such as fruits, grown here came on the market at a time when similar crops from other sections were not on the (Continued on page eight) Yirgin River Project (Continued from first page) market, and that it would be possible to make some power. That it would nearly double the production of this section was the opinion expressed by Mr. Ca-hoon Ca-hoon in telling of the project's development possibilities. |