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Show ELEVEN APPLY FOR POWER PERMITS SALT LAKE Jan 7. Eleven more applications to develop approximately ; 6 000,000 horsepower on tho Colorado ilvi r and Its principal tributaries, tho Green and Grand rivers, had been filed with the Federal Power commission up to November 1. Ifi2l, than during the previous vi. ar according to the annual report of the commission re- reivci yesterdaj by Rait ft. Woolley, hydraulic engineer of the United , States geological sur . In roK.trd to the- applications, howeyer the board has not ordered special Investigation? to determine the possibilities, Tor the reason that In i order not to duplicate the work of any other agency It seemed advisable to await the organization of the Colorado Colo-rado river commission, which has be., u authorled pi ongross. The the commission com-mission his now been o'rgahlfed the federal to undertake Investigations of the projects applied for. Up to Nov t, there had been filed I with the Federal Power commission on various streams In the I nlted Stales In 12 months 1S5 preliminary 1 pe rmits nnd 7G licenses, or a total of 260 WHlCh after do. luctlng conflicting applications and applications rejected or withdrawn; aggregated 11.600.000 , prllmary horsepower and 16,826,000 hoi . jiower of estimate, i Installation These applications affect 33 states, the lustrlct of Columbia and the territory ter-ritory of Alaska. The capacity of the projects vary I from less than 100 horsepower to a Series of projects totaling 4.S0O.0OO I horsepower of the Southern Callfo: -nla Isalson cbmpanj on the Colorado rlccr. Of the -'60 applications on file Nov l 81 .effected navigable rivers.! 100 affected public lands. 26 Indian reservation and 1 5 3 national forests , |