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PRACTICAL FINANCIAL AID TO CHINAWashington— A payment of$250,000 has been made by the Government of China to the United i States Bureau of Reclamation to cover initial costs of services to be rendered by Bureau engineers working out plans for a basin-:nof coun'city con sinners, ing one the officity cle the pur • suchwide development program in the Yangtze River valley. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ikes announced today.The payment wu made in accordance with term* of a recently negotiated contract under which the staff of the Bureau f Reclamation will prepare the plans for huge irrigation and hydroelectric projects to conserve and control waters of the Yangtze river for the agricultural and industrial growth of China.Plans for the proposed development to be undertaken by the government of China call for eon • struetion of the largest dam ever I built, the world’s largest hydrool-. 'eetilc plant, hundreds of miles of I Irrigation canals, a network of ' smaller dams and other facilities to regulate the rivet and its tributaries.I Bureau engineer*, in addition to working out ’be overall plan foi ' comprehensive developm e n t of Yangtze basin resource*, will pie pare the designs, specifications and ; .-ost estimates of the engineering works to be constructed. Kstimat-.•d cost of this planning work is ! $500,000 The initial $250,000 p*»y-the Bureau was made the New York of tic- of .onal Resources Commi*-China.NEXT MEETING OF THE W.C.T.I?. MONDAY. JAN. 14The next meeting f the W.C.T.U.«Women's Christian Temperance Union) will be held at 7 o’clock Monday. Jan. 14 ut the Grace Methodist Church.All interested In the subject of temperance and liquor control are... urged to be present, and ‘f in-'the lor-clined. to take part in the discus- ; law If•Ion. , ' •'•‘T1As pertinent to the discussion. | equal c the chief provision of the N c w Mexico statutes governing local option are published below:ARTICLE 3 til-301. County and municipal elections for b»cal option Procedure Any county in the State o’New Mexico, or any city contain ing over five thousand lt;5,000) P° pulatIon. accotding to the latest United States census, whether the county in which such city is situated shall have adopted the local option provisions of this or any former act or not. may adopt local option in said county or city upon the following term* and con* dii tons, to wit:i is) At any time after effective date of this act. the legal voters ofper cot . votes c for gov general event, t 1 sloners \ missior (shall c | 400) df tit ion lt;I tiling c shall 1 j the Ini numbe requir * Pi ovld board I city c *Iers sh pot it InanvOI nun in i, III i ,proposed local option district month.1 V ......I Ul'I'll111 IVpetition in writing the boardment to through the Nat sion ofThe Secretary said that the contract provides only for technical assistance of the Bureau in planning an,I designing. Financing and construction of the proposed development will be entirely in the hands of the Chinese government Key engineering feature of the project would be a dam larger than the Grand Coulee to be located in the gorge of the Yangtze 'near Iohang. It would create a reservoir 250 miles long, and withother works to be constructed, would provide water for Irrigating ten million acres of land and otherwise control the flow oft he river to free millions of people frm the famines and Hoods which have ravaged the valley for centuries Development plans also provide for the generation of huge quantities of electrie power for industrial development, and for the ini-provemcnt of navigation to permit for „ ocean-going steamers to penetratet ween tion ation tbcr ol to tw ib» tratio ’ legist for t 1 elect U regist by b« | all I* suchannum in advance, in accordance with the terms of the contract to I*, entered into by the successful bidder, form of which will be furnished on request.All minerals on the said lands ,«• erved to the State and Ike CommiMioner reserves the right to reject any and all bids^Dated at Santa Fc. New Mexico this 201 h day of December. 1945 JOHN E. MILESCommissioner of Public Bands lt;2-12.far Into the interior of China.Commissioner of Reclamation Michael W Straus, recently appointed by President Truman, said that the design and planning w«*ik |»v the Bureau technicians will be done at the Denver of lice under the general supervision of lt;hief Engineer Walker B Young direct charge will be John Lucian Savage, until recently chief designing enginee, of the Bureau and internationally known as the do-slgnet of Boulder and Grand lt;ou-lee Dams Mr. Savage spent several months in China last ycat preparing the preliminary report on the development.Part of the work on the plans and designs for Yangtze basin pro-i jects will be done by engineers ami other technicians from China, working under the Bureau's engineering staff. Commissioner Straus said He emphasized that the Bureau's own greatly-expanded program for river basin development in the we tern states will continue to have tiist priority and claim the major attention of its staff.to Sll of eli itled cecdl qUaliafterre *di 1 . » .Tthe to it1
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Thu, Jan 10, 1946
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