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Show uu BIG ELECTRIC PROJECT IN UTAH. It the water power developments of the Colorado river, as outlined by E C. LaRue of the United States geological geo-logical survey, are carried out, the largest dam in the w orld will be con- j struct ed at Lee's Ferry, Just below the mouth of the Parla river in Arizona, Ari-zona, the structure to be 1000 feet I i Ihlgh and back the water to a point about Green River station, on the Den-yet Den-yet & Rio Grande In Utah. The project is said to be backed by the Southern California Edison company com-pany and is for the purpose of devel oping from two million to three million mil-lion horsepower Rut the question arises as where the power will be consumed as experts state that all southern California, including Los An qeles, now consumes only 500,000 'horsepower. Tbe company in its application ap-plication says it desires to develop jpowi r for public utility in eight stairs, j which Is taken to Include Utah, Colorado, Colo-rado, Nevada, Arizona, California, jidnho. Wyoming and New Mexico The j Lee's Fony dam site is much nearer 10 Ogden than to Ios Angeles. It is aeerssiblo to Lhe mining re gion of Ari-j zona It could deliver power lo the J three i ran scon i mental railroads of this section if they electrified, but water pow. i sports incline to the be-! llel thai ii w ill be many years before j any such enormous quantity of power' can be profitably uted in that region of the country ospeciall as more accessible ac-cessible and smaller power possibili ;" ties are located near lhe centers j where power could be most used It Is 200 miles in an air line from j Lee's Ferry to the California line and j another 200 miles to Los Angeles, tho principal power consuming point of the south we i. EJlectric power can be f ran'-nntted that dlslance, but the crscd by the transmission lines, par-I'tlCUlarly par-I'tlCUlarly in Arizona, would make the cost of installation highly expensive, and much of this cost could be avoid ed by developing power lower down the Colorado river The success which has attended the electrification of cue ol the transcon ilnental lines in Montana and west to the coast, may be at lhe bottom of the big powei-creating project. With large development of eketrical energy on the southern edtre of Utah, trans mission lines might bring the power to the I'niied Pacific and Southern Pacific Pa-cific at Ogden and result in the operation opera-tion of those two great railroads by electricity. Moiv and more electric powei is displacing dis-placing steam and gradually the available avail-able water power sites are being developed. de-veloped. In this connection, Ogden City has acted wisely in filing on water power in the South Fork of the Ogden river, as some day the municipality munici-pality will find the reserved rights to be moat valuable. The present city administration is j Bald to contomplate enti rln' thdj lighUng field, and, if that be correct, I lhe city commission is proceeding in j the iighl direction by acquiring a b) ; 'dro electrc power site. |