Arizona republican., 1912-12-26
COBB CHOSEN
 BY GOV. HUNT
State Engineer Appointed Delegate from State of Arizona to New Orleans Convention of Rivers Control Congress.

The Christmas present of Governor Hunt to State Engineer Lamar Cobb was the appointment as delegate from the state of Arizona to the New Orleans convention of the Ma tfonaI Rivers Control Congress, Nhich meets in the Delta City on January 9th 1913. The appointment of Mir Cobb comes as the result ot a suggestion conveyed to the gov ernor in d communication from the board of trade following q meeting with Hon. E. B. Smith. president of the Yuma County Water Users as suciation recently who addressed the board on the advisiability of sending q delegate from Arizona to the con gress
 The intention of the Yuma County Water Users is to send delegate or two from that section, and a movement is on foot to send still other delegates from other parts of the state but it was deemed wise, because of the importance of the congress, and the necessity that the Colorado river basin obtain substan- tial recognition in the drafting Of the Newlands River Control Bill with its consequent $50 100000 per annum ap- propriation which is to be presented to congress Immediately after. the after the holidays resumption of the session.
 The congress at New Orleans will be attended by more than thousand Of the most prominent business men in the United States. Men who are intensely interested in controlling the flood waters of thervers of the United States in order that the tnou- sands of lives and millions of dol lars worth of property that is des- troyed by flood waters every year in the great valleys of the United States shall be abated, and that the water demon shall no longer devas- tate the land It was figured that last year the loss from flood in the Mississippi basin alone cost the peo- pie of the United States five times the amount of money estimated as the necessary annual appropriation besides the loss of life that resulted and the danger following from pesti- lence.
 The city of Pittsburg took up the river control situation to save an nual loss to the city from the flood. in the Aleghany and Monongehels rivers. and through the local brancf called the Pittsburg Rivers ContrO has spent much money already il arriving at sites for the control o these rivers.
 In the west especially in Arizona and California the danger from tn, flood waters of the Colorado rive and it's tributaries is that irrigation works along toward the mouth 0 the rivers is endangered and mucl money lost that way. In addition the flood waters are. if stored al immense water bank that can b, used for irrigation purposes becaus' the river will be allowed to flov at it's normal capacity, and th' stream will change from torrentia stream back t0 a perrenial stream With the flood waters of the Colo rado stored, and it's tributaries like W.se it has been estimated that n less than 5000 900, acres of land il Arizona can be reclaimed an empir in itself
 It is to see. that in the earnes consideration of the throttling of i'm pending danger to the Mississippi ba sin and the other large rivers 0 the east and extreme west, the Colo rado river. and it's tributaries ar not overlooked, but receive due con sideration and due attention from tn framers of the bill. Should the bi pass. and the operations begin wit the lapse of a few months, tn knowledge possessed by State Engi neer Cobb will be of value to tn work of storing the waters and re claiming the land in Arizona
 Another fitting connection in tn appointment is that MI. Cobb is al original Wilson man. acquainted wit many of the big men of all section Of the country, hds been prominentl mentioned for the office of Commis siOner of the General Land Office under the new administration. has not been announced whether o not MT Cobb will attend the con 2ress but the demand for a repre- sentative from Arizona is so grea that the general impression is tha he will.