Arizona republican., 1910-03-14
A Traitor Amonq Us.

We suspect that the Maric0pa County Yacht Club of Phoenix is seeking to undermine the Roosevelt reclamation project So quietly has it pursued it's nefariOus scheme that not a word of il has fallen upon the local ear; not d breath of it has stirred suspicion. The reclamation officials have gone their way with confidence
 that they had the support and friend ship of all elements in this valley Likewise ignorant of the machinations
 of the yacht club, the Water Users association has allowed itself to be absorbed by its interior troubles. But the current Literary Digest discloses a hidden and tortuous path which can be only that of the yacht club.
 Under the title Conservation Divid-
 ed Against Itself," says the Literary Digest:
 Apparently we can not be thor oughgoing in our advocacy of cOnser- VatiOn, for what We save in one direc- tion is taken away in another. One can save up all his spare cash to buy horse and at the same time spend it for a sailboat. In older and home Her phrase, We can not "eat our cake and have il too" Likewise we cannot use our flowing water to carry our river fleets and also divert it into 1 our fields for irrigation. Thorough
 going conservation apparently re- quires the maximum utilization oi i running water for power er-development
 for irrigation, and for navigation. The result will doubtless be an amicable i partition. Power will be developed in the hilly sources of the rivers and | occasionally at abrupt changes oi
 level on the lower reaches, and only i so much of the water Of navigable streams will be used for irrigation
 as will not interfere with navigation 1 Before the fashion of this amicable arrangement is decided upon, how ever, We shall doubtless witness some 1 pretty quarrels. They have already ! begun, as is well illustrated in the great project now under construc- f ton along the Salt Rver, near Roose- welt, about thirty miles from Phoenix ! Ariz. Says The Electrical Review i Chicago, February 26):
 In this instance, as in many oth- | CTS. a large amount of power is re- quired to pump the water from the river gorge up to the level of the great plains, and thus make it availa ; | ble for irrigation. A double service is | thus enacted of the water, first. to ! furnish power, and second to fill the ! irrigating ditches. The development 1 just mentioned includes a capacity of 4,4OO horse power and the irriga- | ton of 10000 acres of land, and here as elsewhere, the irrigation project thus creates the demand for the power.
 ! Some important legal questions have to be met, however, in the eX- ecution of a hydroelectric and irri- gation project, and one of these is water on navigation"
 Now we know what is before us
 Now the enemy of our agricultural de- velopment is unmasked.
 | It is up to us to decide whether | the waters of Salt River shall be employed for the fructifying of ouI lands or whether they shall be per
 mitted to flow idly to the sea fol
 the enjoyment of the yacht club. | We think that a majority vote will i favor the beneficial use of the water
 the diversion of it to the thirsty
 lands. leaving only enough of it flow 1 ing in the channel of Salt River tC
 admit the passage toward headwaters : of democratic candidates after bien- nial elections.