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Show 102 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT an approximate future time for which water supply plans ought to be made. He called attention to the foresight of other cities and particularly to that of Denver and Los Angeles. " Denver with about twice the population of Salt Lake now uses 73,000 acre feet per year and it is now developing the first of the Colorado River water from the upper waters of the Fraser River where it has acquired the right to 100,000 acre feet, which is being diverted to Denver through the pilot bore of the Moffat Tunnel. It has also acquired the rights on Blue River amounting to 200,000 acre feet for diversion when the city needs it. This is also Colorado River water. " The East Bay Utility District in California has acquired the necessary water rights to provide for expected requirements up to the year 2000, and 400,000 people have recently spent $ 29,000,000 for the first step in utilizing this water through a 110 mile conduit recently completed. " The Los Angeles district with 1,666,000 people, with a supply now- capable of furnishing 450 million V 129. John H. Wintersteen, of the Salt Lake Tribune, stands in one of the vent structures along the Salt Lake Aqueduct line. Hampton C. Godbe |