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Show CACHE WHY URGED FOR ST0RACEP1D . Civic Group at Soda Springs Interested in Cutler Cut-ler Dam Project to Help Irrigators. SODA SPRINGS, Idaho Industrial In-dustrial development of southeastern south-eastern Idaho "potentially the ichest aea in the intermountain west" contigent upon construction con-struction of water storage facilities and power plants. Such was the opinion of 100 members of southeastern Idaho Associated civic clubs, who Saturday Sat-urday were on record in a pledge to cooperate with Utah groups in efforts toward raising Cutler dam on Bear River about 10 f?et as the initial step in development of water facilities. It was pointed out in a unanimously unan-imously adopted resolution suggested sug-gested by the association agricultural agricul-tural development committee, headed by Moroni Lowe of Grace, that rising the dam would assure lower Bear river valley water users a sufficient supply to fill their requirements and release a goodly portion of the upper Bear river flow for storage in several suggested dam sites for production produc-tion of electric power and extension exten-sion of irrigation farming in southeastern south-eastern Idaho. President Elmer O. Peterson of Utah State Agricultural college principal speaker at the association associa-tion bariquet meeting Friday night in Soda Springs, declared the "excellent "ex-cellent gesture by Southeastern Idaho civic club members in support sup-port of this out-of-state project is one of the most constructive yet ecoded and definately foretells fore-tells a new area of cooperative development of the Intermountain Intermoun-tain west and southeastern, Idaho.' The association also unanimously unanimous-ly adopted a resolution by the agricultural committee that construction con-struction of the proposed Snake river Upper South Fork dam is imperative if the state is to have proper and adequate electric power to develop the state's enormous en-ormous phosphate deposits. Eventual development of the phosphate deposits is "definitely certain," Dr. Peterson, chairman of the National Committee on Phosphate Resources of the Association Asso-ciation of American Land Grant College and Universities, told the association delegates Friday night. "The phosphate beds of southeastern south-eastern Idaho and northeastern Utah make the areas potentially the richest in the intermountain west," said Dr. Peterson. Eventually the phosphate beds will provide the same amount of employment the same amount of wealth and income as the mining industry of the entire intermountain intermoun-tain west provides at present," he added. j The two states also have an additional source for a tremendous tremen-dous income in scenic Bear lake and in the several mineral springs of the area, Dr. Peterson continued. contin-ued. "These priceless resources need only development and advertising ad-vertising to bring added sourist produced in the southeastern revenue to the two states, and without doubt, these attractions will come into their own as wealth producers in the not too distant future." Touching upon other resources of southeastern Idaho, Dr. Peterson Peter-son pointed out that 30 per cent of Idaho's agricultural income is counties, and 30 percent of the states livestock industry, is in the section. John Noris general manager of the Conda Mining company at Conda, reported W40 was a record rec-ord year for production of phosphate phos-phate fertilizer from the Idaho deposits and predicted a new high will be established this year. Ben B. Johnson of Preston, association as-sociation president, was toastmas-ter toastmas-ter at the banquet. Committee reports, all showing progress, included those by Max D Cone of Arimo, roads; Rulon r' Bartchi of Montpelier. advertising adver-tising and publicity, Albert All-mond All-mond of Downey, irrigation developments, de-velopments, and L. W. Nye and W B Hunt of Lava Hot Springs on the development of the state-sponsored state-sponsored spa. |