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<br />,'1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />".J::lectlric smelting of copper OTOS was practised in lJorway <br />diring the War. .Ii th their cl"ude -Jeginnings and wi th power at <br />$60 per k.w. year, electric smelting successfully competed with <br />furnace smelting and coke at ~GO :';ler ton. It may be possible <br />that power can be developed at a low enough cost to make it <br />attractive for smelting Arizona copper ore. If thiS happens <br />Arizona can be counted upon to u"se ap'lroximately half a million <br /> <br />horse-oower. <br /> <br />"So far, C",lifornia has been much more agrressive in seeking <br /> <br />the develo~ment of the river than Arizona has. due mainly of course <br />to California's much rreater dan~er f~om floods. Californ{E <br />has raised more than ;~lJO.OOO for the use of the Reolamstion <br /> <br />Service J!ingineers for investigating the feasibility of construct- <br /> <br /> <br />ing a dam and placing the river under conat-.ruot-iItg-_-~~"~ <br /> <br /> <br />placing the rivo~ 1.tnd~- control, in the hope that there might <br /> <br /> <br />be enough new land found available for direct irrigation to <br /> <br /> <br />practically justify the cost of the dam as a reclamation project. <br /> <br /> <br />"The reclamation engineerw have been working diligently in <br /> <br /> <br />their investigetions, and they now report that the project is <br /> <br />, <br />entirely feasible from an engineering standpoint and from a fin- <br /> <br /> <br />ancial standpoint, but that as fer as the land thE< t can be re- <br /> <br /> <br />claimed is co;ncerned, as important as it is, this land will "justify <br /> <br />only a very small ,art of the cost of the necessary dam. <br /> <br />P. <br /> <br />", <br />