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<br />e: <br /> <br />MR. I>1AiCr;.JiAI,l c;~~.o;V.l;.d.: I.,r. SecT3t2ry. Llembers of the Commis-~ <br /> <br />sion, Ladies end Gcntl'J~cn: <br /> <br />Tho power sUP:Jly for the h~r8er industri['.l centers of the <br /> <br />St~te of Utah is obt~ino~ ct ,resent almost exclusively from <br />water power plants loc::;,ted upon streams of the Great Salt I,ake <br />Drain2~e. 'lhe 11?r3est stre2!'l. Lnd. tte :?r~ncip21 one from the <br />point of ITiew of power supply is Hear RLver which rises on the <br />Uorthern slone of the Ui~tBh Uountains and afters circuitous <br />route throl,~h \~yoming and Idaho returns to UtFh and discherges <br />into Great Salt LE.ke. I will not t2J:e time to describe the <br /> <br />Bear River ~ower ~evelopment other than to refer to the use of <br /> <br /> <br />storage and the general benefit resultine: therefro~. In the <br /> <br />Southuastern COtner of Idaho, Bear ihver flows near Bear Lake. <br />~: which lies partly in Idaho snd partly in Utah. ~he lake has <br />been developed by means of extensive works into a roservoir of <br /> <br />such capscity as to enable the com,lete equalization of the <br />only <br />River, not/during anyone year, but over a long series of years. <br /> <br />Between Bear Lake and Great galt Lake are situated four ~ower <br /> <br />plants Inth total installed ca~acity of sUbstantially IOO.OOO <br /> <br />H.~. <br /> <br />This unique situation of a com,letely controlled stream <br /> <br />has not onlc"Jroitu.ced a reliable and de)enclable power su,:?ly, <br />~ut has al8c been of ,tremondous benefit to agriculture. During <br />the extr'3;nel~' dry sul!imer of 1919. when through the intermountain <br /> <br />S.I,. <br /> <br />. <br />