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Show 53.0G0 New Farms Planned for Missouri Basin ects would increase employment opportunities op-portunities on a nationwide basis, thy say. Much of the material for building da ins, power pkints and canals comes from the 31 states outside out-side of the arid and semi-arid regions re-gions of the west. Approximately 53,000 new irrigated irri-gated farms could be created in the Missouri basin, and tho population popula-tion would vastly increase, if proposed pro-posed reclamation prnjrcts embracing embrac-ing nearly one-sixlh of the U. S. are carried out, Mr. Iekes declared. WASHINGTON, D. C. Harold L. Ickos, 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 415 Irrigation arid multiple - put-pOM,' projects, almost 200.000 new fa rms would be marie available for settlement of veterans and others, reclamation experts claim. The same reservoirs, impounding im-pounding storage for irrigation, would make possible tho 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, minp-al and rein ted industries. in-dustries. C'nnt n i el ion of reclamation proj- |
