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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~ ...... ...... <br />t-iJ.J <br /> <br />r-.> <br /><.)'.> <br /> <br />States more r3mote from adequate markets tha.n the Glen <br /> <br />Canyon sits, and nearly all its markets are or can be <br /> <br />more cheaply served from nearer points. <br /> <br />These facts are so obvious that some of the propo- <br /> <br />nents of Glen Canyon Reservoir tacitly admit its present <br /> <br />inavailabili ty as a power site, and extol its virtues as <br /> <br />a regulator for power sites to be developed bel",;. The best <br /> <br />located of these is that at Boulder Canyon, which as we have <br /> <br />seen, can bs rrade to f~nish its own regulation, so that <br /> <br />m such great Ulldertaldngs are at pressnt unnecessary, and <br /> <br />are in fact financially at ,present not only very uneconomi- <br /> <br />cal, but probably infeasible. In the present state of <br /> <br />development of the southwest, the const~uctions of a large <br /> <br />reservoir at Glen Canyon undar either plan would encumber <br /> <br />the power ~evelopment with such a heavy charge for construe- <br /> <br />tion and maintanance, as to be a serious public misfortune. <br /> <br />The, disadvantages from an irrigation standpoint of <br /> <br />locating a storage reservoir 650 miles by river from the <br /> <br />point of diver 3ion wllen a. sUa is available at one-half the <br /> <br />distance are readily upPl'"ciated. <br /> <br />One of 'the great problems concerning the Colorado is <br /> <br />that of silt. The Boulder Canyon dam as planned would store <br /> <br />the silt for over thnse centuries, if all were caught and <br /> <br />held, and for nearly a century before greatly impairing its <br />