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Show broke through Its silty banks and Sal-to- n forced its way into the sea region of California, where, instead of the barren desert of a few years before, there were flourishing irrigated ranches, farm homes, and threatening communities, thriving them with inundation and complete destruction. Much damage was done, but with the expenditure of millions of dollars and more than two years of persistent effort the river was turned again to the Gulf of California. The Sal-todanger of a recurrence of flow to Sea is ever present, and the safety of great areas of highly productive land and prosperous towns can be assured only by storage of flood waters and maintenance of a well designed system of levees and the bank works protection. Thus safety from inundation, complete use of waters for irrigation, and adequate development of potential power demand storage and regulation works on Colorado river. low-iyin-g n The Geological Survey report, pub- lished as Water Supply Paper 556, deals with the comprehensive development of Colorado river below the mouth of Green river, with particular reference to flood control and the development of hydro electric power. Records of stream flow are summarized, and estimates of water supply available at many points under a variety of conditions are presented. The principal reservoir sites are described, and their availability and usefulness are discussed. Plans, cross sections, and area and capacity curves, together with engineering and geologic discussions, are presented for all known dam sites on nearly a thousand miles of river, all of which has been surveyed and mapped. In summarizing, Mr. La Rue suggests that the scheme of development should be comprehensive and should provide for the maximum practicable utilization of the potential power, the maximum storage of water for irrigation, and above all the effective elimination of the flood menace, and an adequate solution of the silt problem. Such a plan, when executed, necessarily covering many years, would in his opinion include the construction of 13 dams, which would make available 3,383 feet of head or fall for the development of power and a maximum of 42,000,000 acre feet of storage capacity for the control of floods, equalizing of flow, and storage of silt. Under this plan nearly 6,000,-00acres of land could be irrigated by the waters of Colorado river, 3,420,000 continuous horsepower could be developed in the canyons below the mouth of Green River, and a domestic water supply could be made available for a population of ten to fifteen million in urban communities of the southwest. 0 ROAD BUILDING VITAL TO NATIONAL DEFENSE Washington, D. C., Oct 31. Facts concerning the relation of highways to national defense and interstate commerce are brought out in a statement recently issued by the American Association of State Highway Officials. When the Federal Aid road system now under construction was planned, says the statement, national defense was taken into consideration. The war department was consulted as to roads that would meet the greatest need in any line of defense, and road builders were governed accordingly in the selection of routes embraced in the Federal Aid system. In the congressional hearings that were held, General Pershing took part, and in the course of his testimony before the senate committee on postoffices and post roads in 1921, he impressed upon the committee the value of the county road in times of war in the transport of needed food supplies. work Ever since the began on the Federal Aid system, all roads built with Federal funds have been constructed, say the officials, with military requirements in view, particularly in the matter of culverts and bridges. Since the needs of national defense have been taken into account added security is given to ahe nation, and, under the provisions of the Federal Aid Act, which promotes this phase of national security, no state is called upon to pay more than its due share for this added security. In the relation which highways hold to interstate commerce, road officials in their statement incidentally call attention to the point that Federal cooperation in highway improvement is not new. Visions of interstate highways as nation developers were had as early a3 1803, when the Cumberland Pike and all was planned by Congress, through the succeeding years the highways in their interstate character have been growing in importance. The benefits derived from this growth, the officials add, is not confined to state lines, but comes to the nation as a whole. Of the Federal Aid system, 53.1 per cent is located in fifteen states. This, say the officials, is because the system was planned to include seven per cent of the mileage in each state, this latter mileage being found sufficient to conect all county seats and marketing centers. The fifteen states having a fraction over half of the naco-operat- ive War Implements. Germans declare Frhnce has violated the Washington naval treaty by selling submarines to Poland and but so long as they dont sell any to Switzerland the situation will not become serious. Rou-mani- a, "Guld! Then well gae halves or proveesions. 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Name Address City and State lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIlllffllll,llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll,llllllllllllllllllllllllllllHII uimuM tions entire Federal Aid system are: Texas, Kansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, New Nebraska, York, Wisconsin, and Michigan. New roads into new territory, says the statement, means new loads for interstate commerce, which ultimately finds its way to those states in which are located our financial and industrial centers. Along with this, their statement comes increased national concludes, security, and thus a double purpose is achieved in the expenditure of government funds in the great road building program now under way and which is yet scarcely more than half completed. Why did those allied and German diplomats waste so much time and money on a peace plan at Geneva when they could have got Mr. Boks $50,000 plan at reduced prices? 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