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Show WILL LARK HAVE COUNTY LIGHTS THIS WINTER? ri Aurffl he Handmaiden of gliL iPFlif DEVELOPMENTS BpONSEIIVATION TATURE'S bounty to Utah is manifest in the limitless re-jrf re-jrf 1 sources existing within the state and only awaiting sy adequate development to create untold wealth for the people " of this commonwealth. IN the realization of the possibilities of indas- He projected naming: Gorgre development now trial, agricultural and commercial growth, s preliminary stapes on the Green River is Electricity has shown iteelf to be the hand- frtrikuig exemplification of this important maiden of development and conservation. P4""!8 of conservation, whose beneficial effects will be felt throughout the course of the streams As the touch of a button or the throwing of b?thfe Pwersite and along the banks of the switch, electrical energy is a willing servant mighty Colorado River as far as Yuma, Arizona, of mankind, doing today efficiently the work fl ,s the first water power development on a i that in time past required the labor, and even large aoale ever undertaken m Utah. Its pur-fche pur-fche lives of countless men to perform. 18 to. furnish energy required ir. the industrial, indus-trial, agricultural and commercial development Water power is in the front rank of the re- ?f Qe The power will be generated with-sources with-sources of Utah. In utilizing its driving force, ,n 1h statei c0nsumd within the state, for the an unparalleled example of conservation is upbildmg of the state; adding measurabley to revealed for though mightly streams are har- the taxable values of Utah, creating a lare nessed and their energy made available hundreds payroll for Utah citizens during the construc-of construc-of miles away, none of the water is consumed, tlon PCTwd and subsequently in its operation and but is again returned to its channel to serve maintenance; requiring vast expenditures for man in many ways. Large reservoirs impound materials within the atate necessary in its the water and remove the destructive hazards construction, of flood seasons, storing the flow for the use in periods of drowth. This flood control, a byproduct by-product of hydroelectric development, represents The Flaming Gorge development of the Utah untold values to the farmer, and consequently Power & Light Co. is the forerunner of other to all consumers of farm products. It minimizes important hydroelectric projects. These pro-erosion pro-erosion and thus is a large factor in solving the jrressive enterprises have a double significance, silt problem. The benefits of water power de- While they mark an industrial grrowth of the velopment are of widespread economic highest importance, they have a civic sigirifl-importanc. sigirifl-importanc. cance that u difficult to overestimata. The Utah Power & Light Co. is a public utility in the broadest broad-est sense of the term. Its stock ownership distributed widely and in large part among its customers, it partakes of the attributes of a great mutual or cooperative enterprise whose welfare is inseparably linked with that of the people in the territory it serves. Vim PowERiiGHica efficient "Public Service ' - jl 1,1-1 l p 1 : |