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Show WATER FOR UTAH continued growth of Utah's steel industry. This growth can be substantially enhanced by the development of additionar sources of industrial wafer supply and hydroelectric power. Because of the urgent need for the development of adequate western sources of fertilizer materials, required for the maintenance of soil fertility in at least the seventeen Western States, the potentials of Utah's phosphate and potash resources are perhaps second to none in the area's mineral wealth. The phosphate beds in Utah, part of the great western deposit, have not been adequately mapped, but they contain easily two billion tons of mineable rock, some of which contains fractions of vanadium important to the ferrous metals industry of the Nation. The potash reserves in Utah are significant. They are contained in potash brines, in the waters of Great Salt Lake and in the State's carnaflites, near Thompson. Together with fluxing material and coal, these raw materials can form the center of an unparalleled fertilizer industry for the West. However, its full and rounded- out establishment will depend largely on the availability of large quantities of low- cost hydroelectric pov/ er. The list of important minerals and their deposits in Utah bears out the contention that the State is highly mineralized and that its mining contribution to the West and the Nation will continue to be of major importance. With the development of adequate sources of both industrial water supplies and hydroelectric power, these mineral resources of Utah can be processed in full. The industries, supported by these raw materials, can make it possible for the State to develop an unusually well- balanced employment pattern, equitably distributed between agriculture and industry. ( See Chart 2- Estimated Total Employment in Utah- page II.) WATER AND POWER . . . ESSENTIAL BASES FOR UTAH'S EXPANSION In the multiple foundation for Utah's further development, for the realization of its agricultural and industrial values and for the necessary creation of employment opportunities, the adequacy of water supplies is incontestably most important. The extension of agricultural lands and the full economic use of existing acres, as demanded by national and western requirements, depend solely on the development of additionar water sources. Industrialization, with its compounding needs for hydroelectric power and process water, stresses the need for additional development of both. The expansion of communities rests largely on the securing of additional domestic water. Thus, to meet its own obligations and those which it shares with the West and the Nation, Utah must fully develop the water resources of the State. As water- resulting from the falling of rain and the melting of snow at the higher elevations of the Upper Colorado and tributary basins- courses toward the sea through Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico, it can be made to disburse multiple benefits all the way. The meager precipitation which characterizes the breadth of the Colorado and adjoining basins must be husbanded by proper soil and cover control, by means of both large and small storage and diversion works. These in combination will permit the useful regulation of stream flow, otherwise wasteful and erratic. As this controlled water flows along natural and man- made water courses, it provides opportunity for the production of hydroelectric energy. By the integration of plans for control and utilization, all areas can benefit without discrimination so as to assure maximum economic advantage to the greatest number of people. By compact, the beneficial use to 7,500,000 acre- feet from the Colorado water system was apportioned in perpetuity to both the Upper Basin and Lower Basin respectively. However, in order to make possible the delivery of compact- agreed water at Lee Ferry - the division point on the Colorado River between the Upper and Lower Basins- it will be necessary to store flows of the Colorado, Green and tributaries in the Upper Basin. This storage cannot be achieved in the measure necessary, except at reservoir sites principally in the State of Utah. In addition, the production, transmission and sale- primarily in Utah- of electrical energy to be generated at control works mainly in Utah, will provide the financial springboard whereby the entire develop- [ 10] |