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Show 1 DISCLOSE VAST WESTERN PROJECT DETAILS I LIKE OF M MILES WILL BE ioi Details of Huge Colorado River Power Scheme Dis f closed in Washington 3.000,000 HORSEPOWER IM SCHEME IS OUTLINED Utah, Wyoming and Arizona Included in Scope of Tfe- I mendous Project M WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. An out- H line of a three million UOrsepowi 'i hydro-electric power developme'."t i project now under consideration for the Colorado river in Utah and Art- pH 7.ona Is contained In a memorandum H issued today bv the federal power If' commission, composed of the score- 1 H taiies of war. Interior and ogrlcul- H lure, announcing receipt of eight ad- H d It tonal power development nppllca' H Hons up jO Decembe 14. With Ihesj iLssion now h is 121 I .9 Applications before H Six of the eight .ie aopllcationfl IH ire o i California prolocts, the olhi ft ijM I g from Idaho and Alaska. H The memoi-andum adds, however. H H power plants for summer cottages in I 'M Wyoming to "tli H Vrizons 3.000,00(1 horsepower schei dM MILE l tX.PL i M contemplates, She , memorandum said the construction of a high darn at Lee's Fern. Ariz.. Just south of the Vtah line. The dam H ! will form a reservoir or inland lake H 3oo miles long, backing up thlS" waters "H ; of the upper Colorado river and Its H paeity effectively to control tho an- Isih jitul run-off ot tie- "olor.L i above- the dam. thus giving H source of power in the below I dam and practically oHminntihg tlie LLLLV I causo so much damage in the irrlga- H lion districts along the lower stretohes H the H SERI1 S 'i PLAVl s "It Is proposed to develop the H I ginning at the dam a.ml extending H ' along the river to the we3tern boon- i -H dary of Arizona, with the exception H of that part of the river lying wit! ,H ' th' Grand Canyon national park H i which is excluded from the propow H development." I H |