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Show HMJilHW 1 a1 Official Urges Storage Project Action At Once out, too, that recreational facilities at the site of the proposed Echo Park Dam in Dinosaur National Monument, subject to widespread controversy for the past several months, would be altered but not destroyed. (Those) who have viewed and studied the situation agree that the dam and reservoir would alter but not destroy the beauty of these canyons. They conclude that the proposed Echo Park Dam and Reservoir at Dinosaur National Monument would make possible the enjoyment of this area points "... by the many rather than by the few, wrote Jacobson. He comments that there are those who unjustly fear that development in this area would lead to development in other areas of the National Park system. The Colorado Plateau has set the pace for tremendous growth throughout the Upper Basin and areas beyond the basins perimeter, Jacobson wrote. This pace can be maintained only through carefully planned use of allotted water, natures most precious gift to the Upper Basin. URANIUM BROKER THATCHER SHAW Claims -:- - Oil and Gas Properties Bought and Sold Phone 2015 119 North Sixth St -;- - Grand Jet, Colo. H. P. SLAGEL PRODUCING COMPANY DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, part of which. Is the site of the proposed Echo Park Dam project for harnessing waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries to generate elecirrigation waters for plants at some of the dams and to provide much-neede- d tricity in power lands of the Colorado Plateau. Secretary of Agriculture McKay is behind now arid semi-desethe Colorado River Storage Project and Congress now has authorization bills before it. Opponents of the plan argue it would be the first of many steps to transform national parks and monuments into nothing more than industrial sites, while proponents point out the park sites would be improved and would attract national tourist travel. The above photo is at Pats Hole at the mouth of the Yampa Canyon, showing the east face of Steamboat Rock. Photo is by National Park Service. Crude Oil - Uranium - Metallic Ores rt Can't Condone Idleness Longer, Bureau Engineer Declares cent of the water allotted the Upper Basin. An important immediate addition to the initial group would be the large Navajo Indian project under investigation on the southern end of the Plateau in the vicinity of Shiprock, N. M. Total cost- of the two initial storage units and 11 initial particiA high official of the Bureau of river system, uninhibited use can pating projects is estimated at Reclamation declares that the be made of the Upper Basins al- approximately $923 million. The Colorado Plateau can no longer lotted waters on upstream tribu- irrigators would return their costs condone the luxurious idleness of taries such as those which will up to their ability and revenues this great resource, the upper service the high Colorado Plateau. from power would assist in retiring the last of our In exchange for these upstream the irrigators Colorado River unpaid balances. diversions, storage water would The users of municipal and indusmajor undeveloped rivers. water return all of their would The statement is made by C. B. be released from the main stream trial Jacobson, engineer in charge of reservoirs to water users below costs with interest. Power, howColorado River storage project in- Lee Ferry, the report continued. ever, would be the big paymaster, of the nearly vestigations of the Bureau of ReJacobsons statement relates that returning total cost of the initial developclamation. Salt Lake City. the proposed storage projects and ment with interest, and paying a The Plateau now requires the facilities for hydroelectric power se of the rivers waters and of would pay for themselves over a major portion of the irrigators Its attractive byproduct hydro- period of years through sale of costs.. Irrigation costs according to electric energy, said Jacobson. electric energy and irrigation pro- reclamation law require no interest The users of water for industry, ject payments. Only three per- payments. The Bureau of Reclamation redomestic and irrigation purposes cent of the initial phase of the port as prepared by Jacobson would benefit directly from the development would be nonreimbursplan for the Colorado River Stor- able, and that would be mainly for age Project through several in- recreational facilities of national dividual multipurpose projects de- significance in connection with the Thirty Five Years In The Field 1824 26th Street Snyder, Texas Route 1 Fruita, Colorado - DRILLING PRODUCING CO. GREAT BASINS PETROLEUM MESA DRILLING CO. two-thir- signated as participating projects, the statement said. Foremost in the industrial revolution of this area, however, is the need for electric energy. The power plants of the Colorado River Storage Project would produce this necessary energy, and its interconnecting transmission lines would span the length and breadth of the Plateau. Joining in a combined offer to deliver this energy from a basic transmission system to industries, municipalities and the farm are nine major private utilities operating in and about the Plateau. The purpose of the plan Is to provide for the greatest use of the water of the Colorado nver system allotted to the states of the Lpper Basin. There still remains for use In the Upper Basin more than of its allotted 7.5 million acre-fee- t per annum. The Upper Basin allotment of water is subject to minimum deliveries of water at Lee Ferry, Ariz. Increased uses in the Upper Basin are therefore dependent upon large regulatory storage facilities to assure the delivery of the minimum water requirements at Lee Ferry. With these storage facilities in operation on the main two-thir- ... reservoirs. Jacobson said the storage project must be constructed in stages. Of nine major storage units in the total plan, the Secretary of the Interior has recommended two the Glen Canyon and Echo Park units and an interconnecting basic transmission system, he wrote. These two initial storage units alone would produce of of the storage, and f the power at the cost of the total plan. The Secretary of the Interior has recommended eleven new individual irrigation and multipurpose reclamation projects as an initial group of participating projects. Eight of the eleven are on the Colorado Plateau. One of the eight involves an adjoining highly populated and industrial area in Utah which is benefiting greatly from the processing and handling of the Plateaus raw materials. The other three are in the Wyoming region to the north. The initial group of participating projects as advocated by the Secretary of the Interior is but a mere start in the Upper Basin plan in that it would use Jess than six per- two-thir- two-thir- one-hal- URANIUM CENTER 309-31- 0 P. 0. 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