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<br />1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />,,'1...., ( <br />t;..;,j.l. <br /> <br />51 <br /> <br />floods at other times, and the Glen Canyon site would. not <br /> <br />therefore give satisfactory control of the floods, which is <br /> <br />the IT~st uo'gent of the problems presented. A satisfactory <br /> <br />solution of this problem could not be ac~omplighed at a.~y <br /> <br />point above Boulder Canyon. <br /> <br />i <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Any large reservoir on the Colorado must depend for <br /> <br />its financial f~asibility upon the availability of an ade~uate <br /> <br />mar~et for not less than on~-half a million horsepower of <br /> <br />81e~tric GnergyJ ~ithin econoadcal transrrlls3ion dist~1ce. The <br /> <br />principal available lnal'kets are <br /> <br />1. TlJ.e Pacific slope of Ca.liforaia, L1cluding the cities <br /> <br />of Los Ar~eles. San Diego, Riverside, etc. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />2. I!'rigation pUiuping in all d.iractio:1s. <br /> <br />3. The mining r:3giOi"lS of the mountains of Arizona'l extend- <br /> <br />ing in a broad way fro~ tho northwestern to the so~theastern <br /> <br />corner of that State, and including the cities of Prescott, <br /> <br />Phoenix, and Tt1scon. <br /> <br />4. T,1e electrii'ication of the South3rn Pacific, the <br /> <br />S=ta Fe, a.nd th3 Salt l2.ke rClUways Mel th'3ir branche",. <br /> <br />I!! , The ci ties of N."vada, 'Jta.'1, Colorado and "e':' Mexico, <br /> <br />and the mining regions aJ,jacent to them. <br /> <br />All of th0 more llnport~~t markets above li3ted are more <br /> <br />conveni~nt to Boulder Canyon trcln to Glen Canyon. This is <br /> <br />especially true of the most impo~tant ~r~t, the cities and <br /> <br />irrigation districts of southern California. To reach these <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />the !Jest f8asibla routes for trdnsmisaion lines, coi:sid.ering <br />