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Show 53,000 New Forms Planned for Missouri Basin WASHINGTON. D. C. - Harold L. Ickes, former secretary of Interior, Inte-rior, estimated Just before resigning resign-ing his office that more than 400 Irrigation and multiple purpose projects are needed in the United States. About 100 of these have been authorized and some of them are already in operation By building 41.1 Irritation and multiple purpose projects, almost 200.000 new farms would be made uvailablc for settlement of veterans and others, reclamation experts claim. The same reservoirs. Impounding Im-pounding storage for Irrigation, would make possible the generation of great blocks of hydro-electric energy en-ergy to be used for pumping Irrigation Irriga-tion water, serving rural electrification electrifica-tion needs and stimulating food processing, mineral and related Industries In-dustries Construction of reclamation proj- ects would increase employment opportunities op-portunities on nationwide basis, they say. Much of the material for building dams, power plants and canals comes from the 31 states outside out-side of the arid and seml-arld regions re-gions of the west. Approximately 53.000 new Irrigated Irri-gated farms could be created in the Missouri basin, and the population popula-tion would vastly increase, if proposed pro-posed reclamation projects embracing embrac-ing nearly one-sixth of the U. S are carried out. Mr tckrs declared. |