Show es louver Hoover darn dam now lIoW under con con- conduction Is part purt of Hf a II vast lIst plan for tiding power conserving water for gonna and domestic U uses IS anti and pren pretin pre pre- tin n floods The St St. Lawrence Jeet Is Intended to provide power d I to 10 open the Great Lakes to deep ter navigation na The Columbia river I I Jert 11 also still I an nn engineers engineer's dream 11 I permit ocean vessels to go farther till the river for lr Irrigation To Cost at nt present Indicate that least 2 will be bl needed nedd cover the expenses of dams dums power ants Dt tits and work directly connected th hem therm The power produced when 1 plants Hunts are operating In full f a Rill lit III he het between m II and amid 1 7 10 horse power or or nearly half the laIT iry I of ot all nil the existing water pow pow- plants plant In the United States D which army engineers pt t I autumn I recommended for tor the Colit Cob Co Co- lit b a i river rl alone would yield the lie of or more than 40 10 per cent of ot j I Ial ial production Uon of electric power tI tin I t States In 10 0 and only tr II's loss than the total amount pro red n It Mils ails for Improvement of the then theM n lee M e river which drops 00 feet flet t Iii II 11 tig ng miles mills were brought to tn toh toI r I h h rl the t crisis of the World war var varlie 1 lie lf i f lined impel 1 states needed nitrates S e 1 M i sole ile Shoals plants were built four major projects that Is now under underway way It Is located In to the Black can yon on In Arizona The Hoover Dam Although h Hoover lr dam will be ex exceeded ex in power production by the St. St Lawrence and lind the Columbia river power pow er developments It has hils certain thel theatrical the the- qualities arising from the rugged nature of the region and the rh river ricer Ir such as liS no other power project In the world possesses The lain dam will willbe he be able to hold two years of ot normal Ilo How lIow v of ot the Colorado river It will develop develop de lie- about rroK constant horse horsepower horsepower power with a n maximum capacity of ot about twice that much The total cost to tn the government of ot Hoover lr dam clam tins has been put at nt not more than NI by hy act of congress The development de of the St St. Lawrence hawe Law rence river rJ Is part of ot a II far timing Hung plan to e Improve on nature by hy opening the drool Greet Lakes to deep draft vessels The plans for the development II of ot the Columbia river are still on paper The possibilities of or the Columbia as shown In army tn engineers engineers' report are ore nothing short hort of or astounding In the river and Its tributaries It has been hlen estimated Is III a II potential horse power I of ot about In n ten In dams which have ha hen been proposed there I would be hI about 3 I horse power affluent circumstances Now which one should we give ghe the scholarship to It was a n case clise of the ten talents over again I could see e 1932 1979 Western Union |