The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-05
TO INBOUND
 COLORADO RIVER

Los Angeles. July 5-The worlds greatest electrical project is the phase used by some engineers in describing the plans of the Southern California Edison company for i'm pounding the waters of the Colorado river and developing hydro-electric power on a huge scale for distribu- ton over a wide area of the south west.
 Edwin O. Edgerton, special coun- sel for the corporation and formerly president of the California State Rail road Commission, stated the project ultimately would involve possibly $500, 100000. or twice as much as was spent on the Panama canal.
 Applications for permission to inn pound the waters of the river have been accepted for filing from the company by the Federal Power Com mission It is expected similar ap- plications will be filed with cor responding commissions in other southwestern states
 Generations of a peak load of A. 350,000 horse power and an annual average load of 2,6Oo,OoO horse power from four deveIopments pro- feet above sea level to 500 feet above it is stated, if the stream flow is con- trolled by the first of the four-a 5OO- foot dam planned for the head of Glen canyon, Ariz.
 l At that point, it is stated, the main 1 dam would create a lake almost 200 miles long, extending backward from the dam, up the nearly level basin of 1 the Colorado to the mouth of the Ere mont river. From this point, the l river descends in 400 miles from $500 feet above sea lever to 500 feet above | sea level. a fall of 2,S00 feet. To this 2,S0o feet of the dam itself, giving a gross head of $500 feet for poWe< development.
 | At the Glen eanvon darn ocoo-d ing to plans, a uniform flow of 1S,OOO second feet would pass through tur-
 pines and thence through a power
 canal for fifty miles, to the mouth of
 a net head of 800 feet and would generate 1,240,0o0 horsepower
 From the Little Colorado to
 kanab creek, a. net head of 700 feet
 would be secured in S5 miles, which
 would generate 1,090,00O horsepower
 In the 145-mile stretch betweer
 Kanab creek and the Arizona boun.
 diary line, at Diamond, a net head o1
 500 feet could be secured by the ust
 of two high dams. The river would
 deliver to switchboards about 1,24O,.
 900 additional horsepower, according to Southern California Edison en. gineers.
 The fourth development would
 cover the 120-mile stretch betweer
 the Arizona boundary and the Cot
 tonwood valley. This would afford z
 5O0-foot; head and deliver 7S0,00( horsepower.
 It is contended that among the re
 suits of the project, when completed would be:
 Absolute food control. Provision for irrigation of 2,250, 00t acres, of which 100000 acres would be above the canyons.
 Three hundred miles of the rive would be made navigable. The area which could be served with power includes the entire state of Arizona, Nevada and Utah, nor than one-half of Colorado and Nev Mexico one-fifth of Idaho and Wy oming and tfree-quarters of Ca1ifor mia, with possibly large areas in north ern Mexico.
 Power would be used for the cleo trification of steam railroads, as wei as for commercial. agricultural min l ing and municipal uses, thus Sa;vini 9O,ooo, 900 barrels of fuel oil a year.