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<br />.) <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />"It seems as if Ul'ture intended the cr.nyon of the Colorado <br /> <br />- as a great super-power pro.iect. She has been t1nl'sually l:ind <br />indeed, and has placed by far the best storage sfte at the head <br />of the canyon, the ideal location "for it, where it will-be of <br />tremendous advsntage for power development. I/ith a dam 500 feet <br />high. the re servoi r si te at the he ad of the Canyon has a oapac i ty <br />for storing the total flow of the river for three yearw. which <br />is all that could yossibly be desired. ~ventuailY, there will <br />probably be about seven other dams "bEllow, none of which, by com- <br />parison with the upper deVelopment, have much storage capacity. <br />.E'ortunatel;y alsO 97 per oent of all the water flowing in the <br />River at the lowest dam site, flows through the upper dam site. <br /> <br />"FrOf.1 this upper reservoir site to the lower Boulder Canyon <br />dam site the river drops a distance of 3,100 feet in alevation. <br />'rhe'average flow of the River, with this drop, when the canyon <br /> <br />is fully develo~ed as it eventually will be, will yield about <br />6,000,000 h.p. At :_$ZO pe-r h.p. yeer (the present Arizona cost <br /> <br />,- <br />of power is about $80/ii~~';-; year) this E_mount of power wili be <br />worth $120,000,000 annually. <br /> <br />"It hap,ens ~hat e() )er cent cf the possible powerpro,iects <br /> <br /> <br />:Lt) the canyon bre entirely within the bound;:ries of Arizona. The <br /> <br />other 20 ?er cent of the power that cen be dev01o~ed in the canyon <br /> <br /> <br />is on the ..rizoJ1a-Uev<.i:.c_ bound<.ry liliG. Half of this would, <br /> <br />? <br />