Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-10
A "Red" River to Tame
fly Frederic ! Ifaskin

Washington, - G., Feb. 8 For a
thousand miles the Colombo river plunges
stccply through series If the deepest
porgea on earth, If which the Grand Canon
ia the most famous. It's rniue means
simply lied River, and red il is, IN tho
popular SENSE of the term for II line never
submitted to American civilization, aud II
frequently rises III its wrath and upseta
what little civilization there ~ along Its
banks
Incidentally about ofe million horse
power annually go to waste ii The activities
of this untaIned stream, aud hundreds of
thousands of acres pu either eide of II hre
blisteriug desert orc Of the greatest vii
derrcaaee left in Amcrica, that might be
irrigated and transformed into fertile firms
by tins same river
The a,ipgcatiou is made that, having
deporicd nll the alleged European reds.
tie great American government now turn
ia attention 10 this native red The alg
peetion emnnatcs. rot in exnctiy those
terms from the former Secretary of the
Interior. Frnrkhn X Iane, and u ID
endofscd enplnticnlIv by eugIr GERS who
have studied the problem of dhinnirg he
Red River
The country. we are told, is suffering,
from avef production md NJ employfre1
whle IL great reed is for good farm lands
that iuca can get ~ reasonable prices
Here IL n CHARGE ~ put sofne ~ the unern-
plovcd to work, help the mills II htsnesa
make ! ew start create thousands nt
farms and millions Of horsepower III elcc-
tfical 81 ergy
Yeatcfdays Haskiu letter expnired
Secretary Lanes pIan for doug reclafna-
ton work by means # q har q lssuc Tins
fticle takes the aftciflr case of thr '0lo-
faaa River. and sets forth exactly what
fliplt' he dol with ~ he opifion Mr.
/ William Nplhaland. ehlef engpeer II tine
Wtics Department ~ l.ee NrReles 4hn 1a
/ a we'll ksaeyn f-tthorlty on such problems.
ard Is fo has made specia study Il fhf
I Colorado River
nANgFRpus RrvER
According ~ all thc Btorlea told this
olorado Rlver "a about thf moa' tom
peramcntal stream IN rXqtrncn by
government agreement and universal e1ti-
sent il il not q navigahle stream and ~
waters may. therefore. be fnpouuded Rnt
made available for both irrigation and
power
There is an added reason n the fart
that the Colorado river occasionally rlni
setd end tears ~ things generally havirg
N the past. especially m ite lower reaches
The proposed controls will max" fhr
,lapage impossible IN the future
81 the tego iargcst proposed dam sites
vheh Nir Mulholland hos inspected th
etd. wnliq arc already there in tnWera
cliffs many hundred fee' high Il b necnz
sarv therefore - fnlid only ho oraae p
esfe dam ard hrs agaIa s mnde aasirr Is
the material Iaag practically ail a1 +
slte
Nr NulhafIard figures fhat ho osul
pat ii ihe SO largest. dams with oofnplet
hydfgclrrtrle ta1cfarrrv fnr fhr r3n
version u all available power Nifh canal
md dssf r4b'lti8a duhes Tor the irnga'e
lands for fb4rfs million dollars and TIA
these two sites alone would produce 9vf
six hundred thousaad electnc horaepowf
~ Wcll aa e.saagh availahle water ?
irrigate over Six hgadrcd Thousand acres
Leaving ott II tha calculation entirely IA
lrnrnenHe value If tnc etstr for lrrgafl0r
placing thc cost aolelv oa the power PR
duced, this figures IT fifty dollars pe
horsepowcr Ask anv user 81 power Wha
thla means in value Figuring grner0'Isl
! for interest. sinking fund. labor ard r.
placement the an4ual cost per horse
power i 50 small that . market I0r i
I assured At once, or certainly for aH u
!. within fve years
POWER FOR RAILROADS
The railroads would ike this chea
!, power To he mining enterprises seattle
ed through the-e states TINS power vi
enable profit ehere there now ioub
To the municipalities and the small '4al
ard their citizens y means cheap Igh
-. and power And for the country As
whole there viii be vast economic -4pial
\ Aaording t. Alf Aiulholland ha.t
E6.res. II reply - question one n III,
horsepower expressed III iuel terms fa
ing power ~ ils Oh the basis of 5vp pom,
If coal per aorss power hour amounts
the same as the consumption ai d
! thousand ssa. 81 coal Der hour ua4
The very best practice. THIS means til.
the Colorado River. when harnesSel 81
put u work, viii save the nation twent
Z four thousand tons Of coal per DAY
Mr.. Alulholland has figured on thr
| large and several small dams and pow
Q SITES AT the various best points along Z