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SECRETARY,: .lllst to be open about it, I understand the l'eport was w1"itten largely by a Colorado engi.neer. MRo MATTHEWl Well.. the comments speak for themselves. I thought maybe. Mr 0 Chairman and Gentlemen, these comments would elicit some discussion and questions 0 If there is no further discussion on Colorado, we might proceed with the STATE OF UTAH. Mr. Snow, would you present the matter for Utah? ... MR. SNOW; I am a good deal like the gentleman from Wyoming ~-I don't know very much about it yet. I am from the Southwest corner of the State, and the principal developments that are asked f01" here are Trans-Basin or Trans-Mountain, whichever you call them --from one Basin into another Basin. Of course, we are all Utahns, and most of us belong to the Mormon Church, and believe in the scripture to "replenish the earth and subdue it." As M1". Watson, our Engineer who made this report signs himself not as Engineer but as "Upper Colorado River Basin Compact Commissioner," he has very litt1t, to say, and apparently isn't concerned 'very much with anything in the Lower Basin. To read from his report briefly -.he is quoting from the Pacific Southwest Regional magazine of December 1942; "Instead of gaining from migration, Utah lost by outwa1"d movement of its residents from 1920 to 1940. But despite outward mig1"ation, its birth 1"ate has been sufficient to produce a population gain each decade. In 1930 Utah had the highest rate of natural inC1"ease in the Nation and the fourth highest fertility rate of any State. "The migration out of Utah, like that into other States, appears to result largely from a search for economic opportunities by persons in the working period of life. It reflects a lack of economic expansion within the state sufficiently rapid to provide employment for a labor force being constantly enlarged b'Ji' Utah's high rate of natural increase." I come from a section of my State in which all my life long, I remember my associates and the young men coming on, had to leave the State because there was no possibility within our territory, and we have scattered from Canada on the north, to South America on the south, and of course, between the two oceans. California has many of them. Mr. Watson, of course, is quite concerned about what we term the Cent.a1 Utah Project, and it is, of course, a very important step in the development of the State of Utah. In all, there are eight projects. The principal one, as I say, is the one in Central Utah, an extensiOn of the Strawberry Valley -?7~ ~ ,;""