Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave me the feeling of being aboard a gently and irregularly moving vessel, so I braced a pencil on a piece of the apparatus and held it close to the luminous point . . . About a quarter of an hour was required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous point appeared to dance wildly and irregularly. Was it only that the pencil which I held as a marker trembled in my hand? . . . Then the trace appeared on the photographic plate . . . clear and big and unmistakable . . . Mike...
...looks as if you hit the nail on the head in your Jan. 31 article on the Upper Colorado project when you said, "The people of [the Upper Colorado River Basin] want water; how they get it is less important." If it means the irrevocable destruction of good scenery, that is relatively unimportant. If it means the needless encroachment on dedicated territory, that is secondary. If it means setting a precedent for the exploitation of whatever assets any park has to offer, that is too bad, but it must be done. This whole argument hinges on the very questionable assumption...
...President did mention the Upper Colorado Basin project in his State of the Union speech. He went even farther than Watkins had hoped: last week, in his budget message, the President recommended that $5,000,000 be appropriated to get engineering started...
Says he: "As it is now, 2,200 people a year see that park. On the other hand, more than 3,000,000 people live in the Upper Colorado Basin states and they are hungry for water. Which is more important?" The Upper Colorado Basin includes 110,000 square miles of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. New Mexico and Arizona (the Upper and Lower Basin are defined in a seven-state compact signed in 1922, with the dividing line at Lee Ferry, Ariz...
More than 43 million acres-an area larger than the six New England states combined-are already given over to public recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...