Show spotlighting UTAH colorado river greatest natural resource Reso urca twenty billion akilov kilowatt att hours of electric power are going to waste a annually on the C colorado 0 I 1 oa r d 0 river system the U S bureau of reclamation reports to washington after an extensive study of the rivers resources two and one halt half million acres of land could toe be irrigated if the colorado was bro brought fight under control the report disclosed there are miles of the colorado in utah the report carrying some pages is titled the me colorado river era A natural menace becomes a a national resource Re murce taking a long view of the p potentialities enot of the mighty river the reclamation bureau visions the river channel turned into a great stairway af reservoirs extending up stream A from P parker ar ker D dam am on the boondry between ariz arizona ona and california and on oil through arizona nevada utah and into wyoming and colorado in most cases each dam would b back ack reservoir water to the toe of the dam next upstream branches of the stairway would reach up the san juan green and yampa rivers utahna who have any imagination at all should be able to visualize an empire in the southern part of this state that V will ill outshine anything ever dreamed of by the found ers of this great beehive Be ellive wealth 3 A |