WSP01657

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 4/2/1922
• Author: Colorado River Com.
• Title: Hearing of the Colorado River Interstate Compact Commission, Cheyenne Wyoming April 2 1922
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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the main line of th e Uni on l'ac ific, bl'a nch~ng 0 ff at Granger,

so that the transportation facilities are perhaps unexcelled

in like areas in the United States. That valley has access to

all markets in both directions, and its products are new going

to California, Oregon, Washington and different points in the

East. It is therefore well situated for the production and

distribution of agricultural products and other articles of

commerce. The Union Pacific serves a very great territory and

ultimately no doubt there will arise the proposal, greatly de-

sired by railroads, of electrifying the mot ive power, and the
power of Green niver Valley would be' available where the Union
Pacific crosses this territory. There is a prospective market
for that one purpose alone for a vast amount of power to be

developed by storage in dams at different points along the
road. This would be no disadvantage to communities below. It
, does not consume an ounce of wate:!". :!'hey would have every fac-
ility for developing power and wculd have equal advantage
through the storage of water. We would have no access to this
power if developed too far away. We would have ready access
to power developed within the basin.

There is also situated in that 'basin the greatest coal

mining region in Uyoming and one of the great coal mining re-

gions of the western part of the United States -- perhaps the

most important single ooal region of the western states cen-
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tered around Rock Springs, Kemmerer and other camps that cluster