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Show Utah's Power Possibilities Barely Touched WASHINGTON, Mar. l. Figures I showing th" preaont water power do-valopmknt do-valopmknt " the United states and ee-timatas ee-timatas of the amount of water pow-er pow-er which ultimately may be developed I in ICh of the Htates. ar contained in a report completed by the geological '.survey. ' The tiiost significant feature of these figures Is that In the mountain states of the Weati in which Is to be found practically one-third of all the water power In the Fnitd states, the ppwr dovelopment in yet In its Infancy. In-fancy. Tim mountain states as a whole .-ire rapubb of developing any-whe.-c r-nni a minimum of S.6H 4.uj braepower and a maximum of 15.-131.000 15.-131.000 horsep(wer. ThfOa Mt n t i-day i-day have developed only 197,101 jfcorsepOwer. or about one-tenth or their minimum pbaaiblllttea j Figures iy staten are Interesting. Utah now bus aikty-four power plantt iw-lth a capacity of 100 horsejiower or over, which arO developing 106,000 horsepower. Fll'ty-one of the.' plants, developing 101,844 horsepower, ar- publlr utility and municipal plants. The minimum power possloli-itles possloli-itles In I tah ate found to he 743.000 horsepower and tho maximum possibilities possi-bilities 1,313,000 horsepower. Idaho has forty-five plants, developing devel-oping 3J4,3tbS horsepower, of which forty-one plants developing 2JC-I71 horsepower, are public utility and mu-nicipal mu-nicipal plant'-- Tlie minimum power possibilities of Idaho amount to 2.-362.000 2.-362.000 horsepower, and the rnaxl- i mum poaBlbllltloa of that state are estimated to be 6,067,000. Wyoming is backward In power development. de-velopment. It today has only nine plants p lot horsepower or more each developing in the aggregate 7600 horsepower, all of them public Utility or munli'ipal plants. Wyoming i cap- j able of developing 773,000 horsepow- j er as a minimum or 1,30". 000 horsepower horse-power as a maximum. I |