Show Colorado water River-water Project Is Called Worlds World's W orId s Greatest Plan Plan electrical The worlds greatest used by some project Is the phrase engineers in describing the plans of the Southern California Edison company com com- the waters of oft pany panr p any for or impounding I the Colorado riv river r and developing j i hydro electric power on a huge scale for distribution over a wide area of I Ithe the southwest Ed Edwin win O. O Edgerton special counsel counsel counsel coun- coun sel for the corporation and former forme president of the California state railroad railroad rail rail- road commission stated the project I ultimately would Involve possibly or twice as much as I Iwas was spent on the Panama canal Applications for permission to impound Impound impound Im im- pound the waters of the river have been accepted for for filing from the company by br the federal power commission commission commission com com- mission and the Arizona water commission com com- mission It Is expected similar application application ap ap- ap- ap will be filed tiled with corre corresponding I corre-I spending commissions in other I corre-I southwestern states Generations of a peak load of 4 4 i horsepower and an annual I. I average load of horsepower development projects er from four along the river will wm be possible it is stated if It the stream flow is controlled II ed by the first of the four four four-a a OO- OO I foot dam planned for the head of Glen canyon Arizona At that point it is stated the main dam would create a lake almost almost almost al al- al- al most miles long extending longe backward backward backward back back- ward from the dam up the the nearly nearly I level basin of oC the Colorado to the mouth of the Fremont river From the point the river descends in i miles from feet above sea level I to to feet above sea level a fall of 2800 feet teet To this 2800 2300 feet add the tho height of the dam itself giving a ui j gross head of feet for tor power development j jAt I At the Glen ie canyon dam according Ito t I tto to plans lane a uniform flew flaw fio of t I I second-feet second would pass through turbines turbInes tur tur- t. t bines blues and thence through a power r canal for fifty miles to the mount of the Little Colorado This would give ghe ive a net head of at feet and anel would generate horse horse- power From the Little Colorado to Kanab Kanab Kanal Ka- Ka nab nal creek a net head of ot feet teet could be secured in five eighty miler mile which would generate horsepower J L In the mile stretch between Kanab creek and the Arizona boundary bound bound- y ary line Une at Diamond a net head of ot feet could be secured by the use UN of two high dams The river deliver to switchboards about 1240 additional horsepower a aIng according accord ing to Southern California EdtoM engineers The fourth development would cover the mile stretch between the Arizona boundary and the Cottonwood Cot Cotes I valley This would afford a a. l. l foot head and deliver horsepower f II I I I t I It is contended that among the me results results re re- re- re I suits of the project when completed would be Absolute flood control I Provision for Irrigation of oC 2250 acres of ot which acres would be above the canyons Three hundred miles of or the river i 1 would be made navigable The area which could be served I with power includes the entire state slat i of Arizona Nevada and Utah more than one half of Colorado and New Mexico one-fifth one of ot Idaho and Wyoming and three three- three quarters of ot California California Cal Cal- with possibly la large ge areas la Ia northern Mexico Power would be used for tor the electrification oleo elec of oC steam railroads as well well- as for commercial agricultural ml min mining lf ar i ling ing and municipal uses thus S saving savins g I O bar barrels of fuel oil a U y year r rl l J I t |