The Arizona copper camp., 1919-02-01
SENATOR DEv|NE BOOSTS THE
SAN CARLOS PROPOSITION
Dam Which Will Aid Casa Grande District
Gets Boost by the Arizona Legislature
Memorial to Congress Passed.

congress, with a recommendation ask
ing an immediate appropriation for the
said construction of said San Carlos
dam, and said report was also printed
as Paper No. 33, Geological Survey of
the United States, and the original
copy is now on file in the Department
Of the Interior
That in 1918, the Third Legislature
OF the State Of Arizona, called to the
attention Of the Honorable, the Secre-
tary of the Interior. the fact that the
congress Of the United States in pur-
suance to the report of the Geological
Survey and the request of the Honor.
able. the Secretary Of the Interior, had
in 1915 appropriated from the FUNDS
Of the Indian tribes the sum OF $175,-
10000 for the construction Of diver.
sion dam on the Gila river, above the
City of Florence, Arizona, and later
had made second appropriation of
$75,00000 additional, making a total
of s250,000.00, which has at all times
been available for the purpose of erect
ing this unit in the recommended San
Carlos dam.
That at that time, and at all times
since. surveys, maps, plans and speci-
fications have been completed and are
now on file with the engineering de-
partment of the United States:
That the national administration at
Washington, has urged upon the peo-
pie of the United States, and upon
congress, the necessity of throwing
open to entry for the soldiers return
ing from the war, the lands belonging
to the United States. and to the vari.
GUS states of the Union:
= That the national administration at
Washington, has urged the necessity
Of the reclamation of the waste and
arid lands of the southwest, in order
that lands might be assigned to these
returning soldiers:
That the national administration at
Washington has urged the immediate
need of employment on public works
and otherwise of the returning SOL
diers. that their absorption into indus
tfial life may be accomplished with,
out disturbance Of conditions:
WHEREFORE, Your Memorialist ur-
gently requests, that the congress Of
the United States take such action as
it may deem best to see that the
money already for some three years
appropriated be applied to the carry
ing out of the project recommended
and approved for over ten years, and
that Congress, If it deems such action
wise, appropriate such further sums
as may be necessary to carry to COM
pietion the entire project as outlined
by the Geological Survey in 1909, that
this vast acreage Of rich and fertile
land may be made available to fulfill
the promise of the National Admins
tration in giving employment to large
numbers Of the returning men who
nave gone forth to war, and in furnish
ing homes and economic independence
to those who offered up their all so
cheerfully for the triumph of the
ideals Of democracy.
1t is ordered that copies Of this
Memorial be sent to the President Of
the Senate, and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives Of the
United States, and that other copies
be forwarded to the Honorable Mar
Gus A. Smith, Henry F. Ashurst and
Carl Hayden, that they as the repre-
sentatives of Arizona in Congress may
lend their aid in obtaining the accom-
plishment of this great work.