Show WALTER SHEAD EA Western Areas Reclaimed O SECRETARY of the Interior J. J A. A Krug has a vision of possibly 10 million million mil mil- lion people settling In western reclamation areas by 1960 If U this vision is to materialize however the program of the bureau of reclamation must be carried through to irrigate up to 15 million acres of arid and arid semi land and to produce possibly 22 million kilowatts of hydro hydro- hydroelectric hydroelectric electric power Tills This program has been definitely projected until 1954 1 and for lor that year seven-year period it calls for tor an investment of ot It would bring Irrigation to about four million newly Irrigated acres embracing farms and it would add kilowatts of generating capa capacity or enough power for 21 cities the size of Denver Total Investment investment Invest invest- ment would be something like like 15 15 billion dollars Secretary Krug contends no other area of the nation has the same economic opportunity for these 10 millions of people |