The Imperial press., 1905-09-16

Wyoming 40 900 Arizona. ........... 80 900
 Total. otal........................... 47O GOO Below the Grand Canyon there
 are in Arizona ...... 394 900 California Blythe Estate and
 Palo Verde) ).................. 102 900 Needles Valley. 17 900 Yuma Indian Reservation. g GOO Imperial Valley......."............ 275 900
 Total. Total............................ 417 GOO Mexican Territory y...... 688 900 Grand total of lands irrigable
 but not now irrigated. 969 900
 In this estimate no account is taken of the lands already irrigated. From this it can be seen that the Reclamation acres as the reclaimable acreage cf this Valley. In an ordinary dry year the Colorado river will serve, without any regulation, about 100000 acres of land. On an ordinary dry year with the flood waters of that year alone, stored, the river will serve one million acres. Whenever aWet year comes surplus supply of water can be stored and this water will make possible the reclama- tion of several hundred thousand acres in addition to the million acres the average years flow of che river will irrigate.
 All the lmpOunding dams must be built above the Graid Canyon for the reason that there is no bed rock found in the river bottom below that point. This makes it necessary that the reser- voirs be located in Colorado on the main tributaries of the Colorado river. The best places to construct these dams are at what is known as the Kremling reservoir site on Grand river where dam 1855 feet high will impound 1,500,000 acre feet of water and at the Browns Park reservoir site on the Green river where a 200 foot dam will store 2,500 ,000 acre feet. This will make total storage ill these two reservoirs alone of4, ,OOO, ,O0O acre feet of water or enough to irrigate million acres of land.
 When the saving of the surplus water that falls in wet seasons is taken into consideration it can be seen that it is psssible to reclaim and redeem every desert acre that can be reached by the fructifying waters of the Colorado. Also that the plans set forth by the Reclamation Service are the grandest ever contemplated by the mind of man. These gentlemen have made careful studies of this river and it's problems as whole, have measured it's flow and that of it's tributaries for so long that they know what it's waters can be made to do. Their plans involve the control and impounding of it's floods at points where natural conditions make such a thing possible and the regulation of the flow of the river by the relea e of the waters as needed. This will make possible the redemption of every arid acre under it's flow.
 What this means to California and Arizona can be readily seen. There is enough arid land in the States above the Grand Canyon to consume the normal flow of the river and if state laws are to be permitted to interfere with this great work as appears to be the case in this Colorado conflict 1t would be possible for those states to take out all the water at sertain seasons leaving the lands below the Grand Canyon to return to desert waste.
 This same man Moffatt is also setting up claim to a right of way for his rail- road through the Browns park reser- voir site, and if he is allowed to ove-- ride the government in the Gore canyon case, which involves the Kremling res- ervoir, his same judge will give him his