The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-09-08

| or sites and meantime there have been
newly withdrawn l,245,s92 acres on vacant
| public land and 2lioO7 acres on entere6
public land. or a total Of i,46e,s9s acres.
| These Withdrawals made from time To-
time cover all the power sites tnclude0
In the first Withdrawals. and many more
on lS5 rivers and In II states. The dispo-
sitlon OF these power sites involves one
OF the most difficult questions presented
I'm carrying out practical conservation.
The statute OF 1891 with Its amendments
permits the secretary OF the interior to
grant perpetual easements or rights OF
way from water sources over public
lands for the primary purpose of irriga-
ton and such electrical current as may
be incidentally developed. but no grant
can be made under this statute to con-
Germs whose primary purpose is gener-
ating and handling electricity, The stat
| ute of 1901 authorizes the secretary OF
| the Interior to issue revocable permits
| over the public lands to electrical power
| companies but this statute Is woefully In
adequate because II does not authorize
| the collection OF n charge or FIX II term
| OF years, Capital is slow to invest In
| enterprise founded on permit revocable
| at will
| 1t is the plain duty OF the government
| to see to II that In the utilization and de-
| velopment OF all this immense amount
| OF water power conditions shall be i'm
posed that will prevent monopoly and
|
| are the accompaniment of monopoly. The
| difficulty of adjusting the matter is ac-
centuatcd by the relation OF the power
| sites to the water the fall and flow OF
which create the power, In the states
! where these sites are, the riparian own
| err does not control or own the power In
| the water which flows past his land.
| That power Is under the control and with
| In the grant of the state, and generally
| the rule IL that the first water user Is en-
| n O.
session of the bank or water-power sito
| over which the water ls to be conveyed
| In order to make the power useful. gives
| to its owner an advantage and n certain
| kind OF control over the use of the water
| power and II is proposed that the govern
| ment In dealing with It's own lands should
use this advantage and lease lands for
| power sites to those who would develop
| the power, and impose conditions on tho
| leasehold With reference to the reason-
| ableness of the rates at which the power.
| when transmitted is to be furnished To
| the public, and forbiddlng the union OF
| the particular power with n combination
| OF others made for the purpose OF monop-
| oily by forbiddnR assignment OF tho
lease save by consent of the government.
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sun'e Nv SUN On a..uinp' oi' ..e pa'' -.
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soNOio'sn eon.'o, VI .'e $50 W. u
wa'el po"er III I've i'a.ul"' eonui''on. an"
Wv "e'e p''pi'e.Vl N''p y, VIZ so'
'Nn a t,io ilpnri , 'tnus' =. 10 . ~.
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| LII DC. 49, - .,ota ,,,.,t, aonn,n
| lii - a., ,at 20 to- ,,,1ar,i.,,,,,
| w. , ,os, nasS ~ airao,nr as ~.
| ,t, 49,, A., S,,i,h ,, ,.
| It,,a, 80, ,n,i 90 ,,tnn,to,, 10 III.
| 49,, 80 y, t,o,,,, ,,,h,, J,,,st Ne.
| this ,,,a,,ar 80 ,ronsn,,,ting ,.ato,. noyer
| into oiec,r,o,tv which ron ha convevsd
| ali oyor ,ba countrv and acrosa stat.
| I,nas 10 n noottar Not ought Ia M. 70,
| tained hy tho yo,arnl ,,nvarnnept ma
| that 1, shouid avail itsaIf 81 tbo 'o,yrnr
| shIn ~ those mower sitna for ,Ita very
| nurnose Of co-or1Inatinp in one genera,
| nInn the mower generated from, ih.se
| yovernmept owned aites
nronr,.,.e Ao,i,.+ Ida,
80, -, ,,
! 4, ,,o,,ia reIia,.a n co,nniicatad s,tuatIon
| 10 10 oontroI 90 tho NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. .it.
| and Tho onn,rni ~ the water ,vere yastad
| In ,be same sovarairntv and ownerahIn
| 81, ,ba stotos ana than wara dIsnosed
| or ror 1eveIon,nent IN nrivate Iessees nm
der the restrictions needed to preserve
| the interests of the public from the extOr-
lions and abuses of monopoly. Therefore,
| bills have been introduced In congress
| providing that whenever the state au-
| thorities deem IA water power useful they
| may apply to the government of the
| United states for a grant to the state
| of the adjacent land for water-power
site, and that this grant from the fed
| eral government to the state shall CON
| tain a condition that the state shall
| never part with the title to the water
| power site or the water power, but shall
| lease II only for a term of years not ex-
ceedng fifty with provisions in the
lease by which the rental and the rates
for which the power is furnished to tho
| public shall be readjusted mt periods less
than the term of the lease say, every ten
| years The argument is urged against
this disposition of power sites that legis-
lators and state authorities are more sub
ject to corporate influence and control
| than would be the central government In
reply 1t is claimed that a readjustment
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