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Show tJTNtAH BASIN BECOBB.AIACH 3, 195o ttto Use Beaches 700 Gallons Daily In II. $. VJater Capita NOT WITHOUT END water supply running in under blds ,some four years totalor ground from distant mountains. United States precipitation, Ulterior Secretary. now When the is pierced, around 20,000,000,000 ase ol watera day the water spouts up In some We thought we were fees 700 gallons pretty sections nobody ever bothers to smart to build Lake Mead be:h Prison would this shut off the artesian fountains. hind Hoover Dam, the largest Nature has a way of dwarfing artifically stored body of water he standard 30 P in your the most impressive figures at on earth. But it holds only 30, t Tlome 23 times a day. mans disposal. Just for curio- 000,000 or about to William E. War K, cap-roc- k t. Sy nc the water which is sity here are a few comparative natural path figures about fresh water: Tnclude The average annual precipitathat which (dnot nature put it, tion over the United States is m An growing crops about equal to the water stored Jfons nor the volumeI interrupted for naviga- in Lake Ontario, third most Aom are make rnntrol, and power. capacious of the Great Lakes. include irrigation But mighty Superior, the largest which is used. water" Sd an,uch purposes as cool-industrial plants, then a and irron lotVl Water is not an inexhaustible resource, the U. S. Geological Survey reports. It is a common acre-feefallacy that if one drills deep enough there is tapped a never-endin- g supply. Incautious demands on the water supply anywhere will acre-feey eventually dry up even underthousandth of that mighty ground sources if the amount fresh water cistern, Superior. used exceeds that normally reAnd as a cistern, even Supe- newed by the rior is dwarfed by Baikal, in moisture cycle. Rusia, which holds somewhere around twice as much water. Wheels of business slipping? Lowell Thomas says Tibet Try newspaper advertising for fears invasion by Chinas Reds. better traction. one-fift- ocean-cloud-rain-grou- Uranium Checko Still Unclaimod No one has yet received one fo the checks for $10,000 promised to prospectors who turn up a really valuable source of uranium in the United States. However, assayists of the U. S. Geological Survey are pro- cessing about 2000 samples of ore sent in each month. There is every chance, they say, that rich deposits will be found someday. Celluloid, the first plastic, was developed in 1869 on a wood pulp base. e daily around is therefore 000 000 gallons daily. a national yearly Nearly 120,000,000 acre di-us- of water would with a nnp acre of land r water, and is the west acre-foo- t stand-easureme- nt in the essential water storage is loredninya tank as large na- as Connecticut, the annual diverted would be 40 feet deep, water magnitude of this great-jou- e natural-resourc- r mdus-ma- y be sensed from the hat the years diverted would weigh 130,000,000, ns. Our next most massive ndustry is coal, in which tons are is 1,000,000,000 1 yearly. the water had to be (from the earth, like coal, isk might be too great, 111 later comes from above, skillfully uses gravity to it flow where he wants it. act, the weight of falling affords such energy that traps the energy supply turbines, and gets there--i- n the United States I of all his one-fift- h elec-powe- r. as are the senting our use of figures diverted in the United States, they uny compared to the totals ;antic its area, an average all on uring the total ill, 30-inc- h precipitation, our country would 5,000,000,000 acre-Ou- r total diverted use in-- s on round r, little more than the supply thus available from the clouds, n has always pulled a of the water he up from the ground with s. Certain communities and lit a in irrigated regions are almost wholly supplied, perhaps a dozen major ground water pumping is only a cent of ' -- cer-Jproporti- on . the hshing supply much ' than nature restores it mg an immediate and seri iroblem. safari here, man is En often able for him :ian basins are huge under und reservoirs of porous sealed above and below by rvious rock, but with their t gravity You new time. GS It lick Oil luick 22 to work Mapping Regions wai burvey is now active-rnjage- d in petroleum gas , eam of published t and vestigations. neariy i00 field and emPlyees stem a Pm m.aps re-- 1 containing data concerned occurrence of petro-- , natwal gas deposits. of SLnainly on the ron eum Provinces "e JJr?0 . co in ipttf1 nfPGCts s SL one pcw 7 withrk exist for the producing the Survey .Vlcw to pro vid-a- s g?ol?gl.cal information in exploring1 for and encif Elions ofMre .df?tailed exthe re ;r are rPrise 000 from paymg aj Because certain big business corporations are excused of us ha all the and federal income taxes on their business incomes, you corporations are Cotheir share added to what we must pay. These thate operatives, Foundations and similar organization DOLLARS m federal BILLION business for profit. Together they dodge almost a lume alone, do close to $17 bdhon income taxes every year. It is time to end this mjus . the profits from which are largely on presis asked to increase income tax rates tax-favor- ed States involving most . Potentially productive ot this country the U. S. . i U NJ i areas specific sites may filing conducted by private Co-op- s, tax-exemp- t. Eight now. Congress cost of ent taxpayers in order to meet the mountingshare. It s time to . still avoid paying their Yet these ?0enU tax-exemp- ts M this Oip SIGN AND MAIL IT TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN YOUR CONGRESSMAN IS: WALTER K. GRANGER House Office Building w Washington, D. C. on Anyone. ..Before Increasing Income Taxes of Utah League Tax Equality 915 KEARNS BLDG. F UTAH SALT LAKE CITY, |