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Show COLORJOP RIVER Immense Waterpower Project Includes Part of Utah and Idaho il JS ANEiIiS, Cah; loc. I'lAp-I plication by ib. Southern Callfornla-j Edlnon oompany fr ;t brcllnnlnary per-mlt per-mlt i" devel p H.MiO.ooO horsepower of 1 I. 1 rlc energ from the waters of the, Colorado river, has been accepted by I the federal power commission at Washington, i C . aci ording to a tele tram which John i- Miller, president of ihe oompay announced fte had re-oelyed re-oelyed from the capital lasi night. Mr. Miller sai.l accept inc.' of thfc irt llniimiry uppllcatlon meant that j publication and other legal forms I shlcb precede ib granting of hydroelectric hydro-electric lights would be beguiy. (.1 INT I'dW 1 R ItlSSOl RT5ES. Th com pan J plans to make the ; electric r. available in California, , Utah, Arizona. Nevada and Colorado. In connection with his nnnounce-j nnnounce-j fnei.t. Mr. Miller issued the following statement: "Th electric energy which could he generated from the power sites on the river coyered by the application is equivalent lb the total hy.1 r -electric developnent In the stums of California) Oregon, Washington", Arizona, cu,- rado, tdahoi .Xlontami. Nea.a, N'W Mexico, Utah and Wyoming ai the be tinning of 19:'.'. "Incident to the project Is th( establishment es-tablishment of a uniform flow of the Colorado river, which pr.o'in .lly would eliminate the ieasonal floods. The present irrigable capacity without storage is 750.000 acres. Full c;omrol under storage regulation would permit Irrigation of 3.000.000 acres. GREAT STORAGE BAMS. "The storage basin Will be more than 200 miles In length, impounding more than A 0.000,000 acre-feet of water. The total possible hvdro elcctrlc development de-velopment of the Colorado river U mon than 4,000,000 horsepower. Which It eQUat in Qne-half the total hydro-! electric power now RcneralCil In the entire Cnlted Slates'" The statoment continues: "This application contemplates the J develbpmeht of powet on the Colorado river a lane the HoubJer canyon project, pro-ject, and the permit would allow the Edison company time for surveys, In-I'estlgatlon In-I'estlgatlon and perfecting of financial platiS for coiiHtrucilon of the dams, conduits and power houses at Marble canyon and Diamond creek, not including in-cluding Iho possible power develops njent In the Grand canyon and Othef sites along the national park. TOi ill B BIGHT 8T I 1 B. "A study of the areu over which thfc power proposed to be developed from ib- Colorado river, would be dlstrlb- uted, shows it to be more than three- I fourths of the m a'e of California, thai entire states 't liah, Arizona, and N'e. a,; i, dne-half Of ColOJ atlo and New J Mexico, and possibly one-fifth of each ' - t 1.1, ib. . and W onillie, Should jctor .national bcuildarles Le crosHfd by lb Itji.- of development, the large agricultural agri-cultural and mining dlslrlota f N- i ern Mexico would bo within reach. By tho comdete development of i the hydro-electric resources Of ih. Colorado rlvor. which drulns a watSJ shed of 2fio,ooo square iriilea and ... an annual run-off of 16.0uu,u00 n foct, electric energy could be f umishc for the operation of ir.ilns on 15, Ov miles if railroad, consisting .f six e l and two proposed tlHQSCoai nenl l llms. and still leave 66 per . of the generated power for genera. . ommefclal, agricultural and tndustriu purponep. "To dex'elop an equivalent amoa.i. of power by generating plants usioi oil for fuel, would reqmre praotlbal-ly praotlbal-ly the pic-Sent production of potroleuln in California. 'The substitution of this enorm.ou Increase in hydio-elecl r lc energy foi that now produced from oil Would ln-deflnltel) ln-deflnltel) extend the fuel life of lhe l.'nitcd Stales and lii'Tihiiii marine,' which Is dependent upon oil supply 'since tin exigencies of the world war bl lUghi about g change from coal io oil burning for navigation purposi "The Colorado river is considered the second largest river system In thi I'nlted States and 1st unique among the Important waterways of the world in Its adaptability to control for the fourfold four-fold purpose of flood prevention, Irrigation, Ir-rigation, navigation and power de- lopment, Although its outlet Is In the desert lahdfl at the head Of the Gulf or California, Its head Evatei in the lands of abundant snowfall in Wyoming, Colorado and Clah. Impounding its waters above the' proposed dam to be 500 feet In height would .-tore per cent of the annual run-oft. Estimated On the accepted basis of Statistics, the Increase in community com-munity wealth by ihtH development would be equal t-j the total valuation of California for the year iy:i.i. |