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Show ENERGY OF RIVERS 10 BEJDEVELOPED IMMENSE POWER PLANS FOR THE WEST PLACED BEFORE COMMISSION. Applications on File Contemplate the Development In Utah and Idaho of Millions of Horsepower for Public Utilities Purposes. Washington. Imagination of the records of tho federal water power commission, consisting of tho secretaries secre-taries of the Interior, ngrlculturo and war, shows that tho application of tho southern California Kdlson company, which already has received some publicity, pub-licity, cynteniplntes the possibility of 11 dam 1000 feet high In tho Colorado river. Thu application, however, Is merely for authority to send engineers for the applicant company Into the upper reaches of tho Colorado river to make careful surveys to tletormlnu: first, the feasibility and possibility or the power schemo tho applicant has in contemplation. Second, Its cost nnd the amount and character of the work that must be done. Among other applications beforo the commission nro thoso of: , Tho Utah Power & Light company for u preliminary permit to develop 21,500 horsepower at Soda Springs, Lnvn Narrows and Mink river power projects on Hear river, tho latter possibly pos-sibly being divided Into two plnnts for public utility purposos. The Idaho Power company, for a preliminary permit to dovolop 00,000 horsepower at Upper Salmon Kails of tho Snake river for public utilities purposes, nnd another to develop 2T,000 horsepower nt Twin Falls, on the same river, for similar purposes. Maps accompanying tho application for a preliminary permit hy tho Southern California Kdlson company tiro sketched from mapi of thu United States geological survey, the work of which agency has been largely summarized sum-marized hy the report of K. C. Lit Iluo on "Colorado Hlvcr and Its Utilization," Utiliza-tion," published In 1010. The applicant appli-cant company Indicates 11 belief Hint by erecting 11 dnm In the canyon of the Colorado near Leo's Ferry, Just below tho mouth of the Purls river lu Arizona, and about fifteen miles south of the Utnh-Arlzoun Hue, thu structure to be approximately 1000 feet In height, water can be backed up lu thu Colorado river nnd Its trlhutnrlcn ubovo Hint point for a distance of about 300 miles. |