Arizona republican., 1909-04-24
PARKER RMAKES .FORMALAPPE Resolutions Addressed to the
 President and Congress WANTS DAMS|TE PROTECTED Fears the Project of the
 Chuckawalla Company If
 Successful Will Prevent
 Reclamation of Arizona
 Reservation Lands.
WANTS DAMs|TE PROTECTED
(By Tom Shultz.)

Parker, AriZ., April 22.Iln view O.
 the great importance attached to thu
 proposition as to whether private cor
 porations operating under the Cares
 act, or the reclamation service should
 handle future projects to reclaim tht
 vast acres of the Colorado River val
 ley, below this town, the Parker I'm
 provement association last evening met
 and unanimously adopted the follow
 ing resolutions:
 ITO the President and Congress of the United States:
 "A Resolution Adopted at a Special | Meeting of the Parker Improvement
 Association, held at Parker, April 21
 1909:
 Whereas. The valley of the Colo
 rado river Gin Arizona) embraces some
 two hundred thousand acres of unre-
 claimed agricultural lands Cargely
 covered al present by the Colorado riv- ] er Indian reservation) known to be of l great value when the waters of the l Colorado river are placed upon the ! same; and,
 Whereas We understand that in ! vestigations of United States reclama- ton engineers and others have shown that practically only one feasible dam site exists (known as the Narrows. sit
 uated about twelve miles above Par ker), where water could be conveyed upon all of the lands; and.
 Whereas, We are informed that cer- tain preliminary investigations have been made by the United States rec lamation service. which has determined the practicability of irrigating this vast acreage by the waters of the Colorado river from said dam site; and,
 Whereas, By a recent act of con- gress, Arizona and New Mexico were placed in the list of those states gov erned by the Carey act, which grants special privileges to such states to own and control water for reclamation pur- poses; and,
 Whereas, There is now a bill pend- ing in the senate of the United States conveying a right to a private corpo- ration to construct a dam across the Colorado river at some point above Parker, for the purpose of power and irrigation; therefore be it
 Resolved. That we, as citizens of Arizona and residents of Parker, here by earnestly protest against the pas sage of this, or any similar measure. affecting in any manner whatsoever, the title to any dam site along the Colorado river that might now or here after be required by the United States reclamation service for the proper rec lamation of the aforesaid lands. Fur ther be it
 Resolved, That a copy of these res olutions be sent to the president of the United States, the president of the United States senate, the speaker of the house of representatives. the sec retary of the interior and to Ralph H. Cameron, delegate to congress from Arizona
 PARKER IMPROVEMENT ASSO-
 CLAYTON.
 By c. w. GRAVES, President.
 Attest: H. E. Ward, Secretary"
 While not saying so in the resolu- tion, it is pretty thoroughly understood that the Chuckawalla Land and DeveI- opment company. whose principal of flee is at Los Angeles, Cal, Is endeav- bring to acquire under the Carey act the only feasible and practicable dam site on the Colorado river the owner ship of which would prevent the rec Iamation of 100000 acres of land lying on the Arizona side of the river It is stated that the Chuckawalla com pany owns a body of high land back of and below the Blythe estate, fifty miles | distant, which cannot possibly be ir- rigated from any other source than the point stated - the Narrows - twelve miles above Parker. The best advices at this time state that the line of the canal of the Chuckawalla cannot cross the divide between Whip pie and Riverside mountains-the ele- vation of which is fully two hundred feet above the seventy-foot dam which | is proposed to be constructed across the river at the Narrows.
 A bill was recently introduced in the | senate by Senator Flint of California, l asking that the Chuckawalla Land and company be granted the privilege of damming the Colorado river and appropriating its water for power and irrigating purposes. This bill was by the war department, un- der whose protection the waters of the Colorado river rest. To back up this bill, in February last, bill was passed the Carey act to include Ari- zona and New Mexico. I say, "to bacl, up this bill" that is my belief. for the reason that the removal of Arizona's arid lands from the reclamation ser vice and turning them over to the beneficent sharpers who might, and are. in this instance, taking advantage of the Carey act, is nothing more nor less than gigantic steal of $3O,OO0. 900.
 What are the 100000 acres of land worth on the Arizona side of the river. if one can't get the water on it? How is the water to be got upon 1t if one hasn't got the dam site?
 The people of Parker call upon every board of trade, commercial club and nrix-o +a o;ti1an af tIa tarritor,- fo ,,eo