Imperial Valley press., 1920-10-30
N|CKE n,
N 'PHERR|N
T|RED0F NO
SUPPORT
General Manager Cronholm
Tears to hreds Statements
Made in Favor of Vision
airy Volcano Lake Storage
Scheme.

While General Manager +. n.
Crcnholm of the Imperial Irrigation
District was tearing to shreds the
Volcano Lake storage plan bubble
last night to the satisfaction of the
+ Associated Chambers Of Commerce,
discouraged from apparant lack of
support in their home communities,
}. S. NickersOn, president of the
| district announced that he would re-
sign February first and it became
known that X. ID. McPherrin, dIrec
tor from Imperial, will not become
candidate for reelection.
my sole season for deciding on this
action is the action of the mutual adj
visory board," said Mr.. Nickerson last
night. "When your own friends and
ncighbors turn against you and fight
you, what is there to do?"
Mr.. McPherrin, who has decided to
act with Mr.. Nickerson as a unit, feels
the same way about the matter.
I'm sorry it has come to this
point continued Mr.. Nickerson. 81
have neglected my ranch. | am a fl
nancial loser since | accepted this
position. l have devoted large
amount of my time to studying these
various problems. Not two weeks
ago the board spent two days in Mex
leo with Governor Balarezo studying
these various phases and the board is
convinced that the Volcano Lake stor-
age plan at its best is only a plan
advanced by the Mexican interests.
when your friends and neighbors
cannot see these things and fight you
IN your home community there is
limit to the endurance of any man."
Not a half hour before speaking to
the Associated Chambers of Commerce
General Manager Cronholm had said:
This brings me up to the Volcano
Lake storage plan. | am sorry Mr..
Allison is not here tonight so he could
hear what | have to say. The Volcano
Lake storage plan is only temporary
plan. The Boulder Canyon dam offers
a permanent solution; the Volcano
Lake plan does not protect the Valley
from floods, the Boulder Canon plan
does. Outside of the engineering
problem of building a silt leve. which
would hold, and l doubt it, there is
no stability to the plan. Have you
folks ever realized that continual
"",,'n" "f leveeS in that bog may re-
suit IN their sinking? Then where are
you! There are places where levces
40 cc~structed are almost out
Oh light, What will this Volcano
A-dkc pan 40
Returning to the folly of this plan
he said, ut makes no provision for
lowering the river and controlling
floods, Boulder Canyon does; il does
not take the river away from the
weak spots, Boulder Ganyoa does; it
Is in foreign land Boulder Canyon
s in the United States.
II sneak as man with no interests
on either side of the line, as an em-
ploye of the district with its best in
Ierests at heart. | speak old-blood-
edlv and these figures | give you are
cold facts, not dreams. Boulder Can
yon dam can be constructed so that
the Valley will benefit AZ quickly as
this proffered solution 1t will cost no
more. 1t will be permanent. The elee-
trio power develored will pay for it
in few years. Can't YOU gentlemen
see that the solution of this diff
Guilty lies in permanent storage in the
United States and not temporary
doubtful makeshift in a foreign
4and?"
Both Messrs. McPherrin and Nick
larson feel that they cannot remain on
the board while the backbiting metf-