The Imperial press., 1905-09-30
Against Colorado Grabbers
 Formidable Proportions
Movement
Strong Sentiment Shown Business Press and General Public Against Move to Defeat Reclamation Work
 Lower Colorado River

In our issue of the Press of Sept. 18th we took up the matter of one, D. Il. Moffatt, multi-millionaire of Denver, who, through his control over the Colo radO courts is trying to prevent the car rying out of the plans of the Reciama- tion Service for the control of the wat CTS of the Colorado river. Some of our readers criticised us for publishing this, on the ground that we were setting up an impossible contingency, that the Re- clamation Service could handle the mat ter all right, and defeat Moffatt and we were injuring the Valley by calling at tention to the subject. Regarding this proposition we would say, that within a few days of the publication of the mat ter in this paper the subject was men, tioned and the statistics used in every Los Angeles paper and in the papers of San Diego, Riverside and San Bernar- dino as we'll.
 Also those of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. The Los Angeles Herald and Express published editorials on the sub- ject, strongly advocating prompt and decisive action to give the Reclamation Service the power to control the entire water sheds of tise rivers of the arid land states, with power of eminent do- main over all property needed for their projects.
 The Times published lengthy arti- cle, giving all the statistics enumerated in our article and good many of its facts and urging action on the part of the Los Angeles people in regard to the matter
 The San Diego papers gave the matter considerable space and protested against such fragrant violation of the public welfare in favor of rich and unscrupu- lous millionaire.
 The Phoenix Republican, after giving the facts and statistics, adverted to the movement in the Southwest against this action of the Colorado Court and In a review of our article of September I6th, quoted libeI ally from what we had to say and characterized the entire matter that we published as being a singularly truthful comment on Cobra do political conditions. They also strongly supported the move tor organ ized opposition and protest from the people of California and Arizona.
 The Tucson papers published the sta tistical matter concerning the detrlment such course would be to the develop ment of the country along the lower Colorado and gave the movement to overthrow M0lfatt, their hearty support. That the matter is considered of great importance to the welfare of Los An geles by the business men of that city is shown by the following, from the Los Angeles Herald oflast Erldav, Sept. 22nd :: "The os Angeles realty board at its semi-monthly meeting and luncheon recently took formal action relative to the ultimate reclamation of possibly mil lion acres of California land now classed as desert waste anf for United States control of hundreds of thousands of sim ilar acreage in other states.
 As result of the interchange of views on subject fraught with great interest not alone to Los Angeles, but to the state and nation, and after the facts rel ative to recent lawsuit in which the United States government was defeated by private railroad corporation were laid bare, the realty, board, by unani- nous resolution, authorized the ap- pointment of a committee to include the president of the board, for the pur- pose of conferring with Senator Flint and Congressman McLachlan and if ad visable arouse public opinion and secure legal aid in protecting the interests of the people.