The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1957-05-10

What It's All About

Currently throughout there gigantic
struggle going resource development And whether it's
Hels Canyon Yelowa Paradise, Spruce Park in Flat
head county, the opposing lineups are the same
Private power is determined that either will de-
velopment rights will cut itself in partnership whereby
the people ninety cent of the development bill and the
private utilities for constructing only the profitmakng
portion of such projects-the generating facilities
In the of Hes Canyon the Snake and Paradise
the Clark Fork the monopoly crowd intent block
ing all public efforts harness the potenas
of both sites for the benefit of all the people of the region They
appear willing to seek partnership" at Yelowtail.
now only Congressional action the fabulous
Hells Canyon site from acknowledgements
Committee has reported avoraby authorizing fed
Hes Canyon project Senate vote expected later
this month Federal development of Hes Canyon 2
mill power with 7m power should Idaho Power
Company receive final goahead via adverse congressional
action the Hells Canyon bill Sevenmil power will attract
no mass industry Northwest Neither will it make pos
be the development of the nations richest phosphate fer
tzer beds located southwestern Montana Idaho and west
Wyoming Phosphate fertilizer manufacturing requires
quantities of owcos the product is to be
placed on the market at price farmers can afford to pay
In brief highcost private development of He Canyon will
provide only fraction of the jobs do little to broaden the
base of the region and do nothing to curta lower Columbia
river floods which annually cost the affected in excess
of $50, 600, 900 in damages.
Congress must act favoraby Hells Canyon bill
sponsored by Murray Mansfield and about 80 other
Senators at TINS 1rs session OF Uhe oot or he
Canyon and its enormous poWegenerang and foodcon-
trolling potenaes will be lost forever For this there
IS urgency IN the frequent appears Deng MADE Tor eeT TO
our congressman requesting favorable action on the els
Canyon you haven't written the time Our dele
cation needs to know sody behind them in their all
out fight to this great powerfood control site
Similarly, there's need for 'grass roots action in support
Montana delegations
reasonable SIS million rgtoway asked by the Grow
tribe for Yelowa dam site Our delegation anticipates tough
battle get that rght-ofway resolution through the House
they your help this too Yeowtail develop
nen repeat only has longterm implications for
the prosperity of southwestern Montana but during
period will provide economic shotnhe
arm which currently badly needed in the BlngHardn
plentiful in the Midland Empire this year
the there general feeling of apprehension
what the future holds in view of the declining
picture increasing imports of foreign OIL etc.
Paradise is far along Yelowai Review studies
the Corps of Engineers that western Montana site have
completed every detail at this time Sufficient
formation available however, to show concusivey that
Paradise link in obtaining mastery the mighty
Columbia for the possible benefit of the Northwest
Paradise represents one-Sxteenh of all possible
Columbia BASIN 100000 klowatt power potential is
Montanas untapped of electrical
energy 1t will nundate only oneenth irrigated
will irrigation for the is place
will provide recreationa beautiful than the
Lake Chean recreational Washington made possible
by man-made DAM the worldamous recreation spots of
the IVA To northwestern Montana, who's sorely
for jobs these Paradise 5000 jobs
construction period In the longer cheap
produced by this gigantic eah structures houses
will draw industry, thousands of jobs
featuring transportation and retail businesses, and
will bring much broadened base for the affected
Hungry Horse possible the than doubling
of the Flathead county tax base in decade. =
course there's Spruce Park the Fathead
which would divert additional water Hungry
Horse thereby greatly increasing the powerproducon poen
of that dam both the dam and at the other dams
boh public and prvate) downstream by greater regulation
of stream flow Industrial growth Fathead has already
all expectations In less than five the Fathead
has become powershort Anaconda Aluminium would