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Show IMPERIAL VALLEY PROJECT FAVORED WASHINGTON. Mar. 2 Secretary, Fall of the (hter'ioi department i(es-jterday i(es-jterday sent a vok mlnous report favoring favor-ing the project tr ino development : , ihc Imperial Valley in California, by! Irrigation from the Colorado river. Th. (I engineers report that the project IsJ (both "physically practicable and fl- ' na ncialb feasible." , The project recommended provides I for construction by the government . of a "high lino" canal from Lagunal dam to the Imperial Valley and con-1 -tin. tlon of a large dam at or near, I Boulder canyon in the lower Colorado I river. The canal would be paid for b 'j i assessments upon adjacent properl ' l..,..f :, Tin. llnttMaK .1, ... I also contemplates development of a large power RUPDly for sale to Inter-jests Inter-jests of adjacent Mates at prices to be fixed by the government. Secretary Fall wrote that he ' earnestly earn-estly hoped the report will be favorably favor-ably received l congress." He said i there was "virtually unanimity among the Interests affected on the desirability desirabil-ity of ecnslnu liiig the large project covered by the report." |