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Show TO HARNESS COLORADO RIVER Plan to Furnish Energy and Irrigation to Western States. Los Angeles. Application by tho .Southern California Kdlsoii company lor 11 preliminary permit to develop -'XiOO.OOO horsepower of electric energy from tho waters of the Colorado river has been accepted by the federal power pow-er commission nt Washington, D. C, iiccordlng to n telegram which John R. Miller, president of tho company, announced an-nounced ho had received from tho capital capi-tal Monday. The company plans to make tho electric elec-tric energy nvallablo In California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada nnd Colorado. Incident to the project Is tho establishment estab-lishment of a uniform flow of the Colorado river, which practically would eliminate tho seasonal floods. The present Irrigable capacity without storage Is 7.ri0,000 acres. Full control under storage regulation would permit Irrigation of 3,000,000 acres. |