The copper era and Morenci leader., 1920-12-31

! the San Joaquin valley 1n California but still, with all the knowledge and experience of this and other sections of the west before you. you waited in the Sat River valley until your lands were waterlogged, when you should have known that with irrigation the | level of the underground waters would gradually rise until the desert. again claimed your ranches. Whenever in | the past man has fought the desert the desert has won. Let us not nope that this generation will permit the repitition of the process. l believe, on the contrary that we are going to en-
 large constantly our irrigated area by
 the use of our streams and the water
 tables beside them-that we are going
 to multiply our fields, from new for
 ests, and, in short, give the nation a
 constant renewal of it's sources of sup
 ply. .s0
 sI am here tonight, however, to I plead with you to develop the Cobra
 do river along the right lines. In Ari-
 zona there are 100000 acres which
 can be reclaimed by this stream. Tn ] California there are another 2,000,O00
 acres and in Mexico 100000, more
 so that the final development of cor
 rect plan of conservation will result
 in the reclamation of an empire of
 5000, 900 acres.
 s.The river upon which this develop
 ment is to depend has flow below 1 the Grand Canyon of 16,000,0OO acre
 feet a year, It is just 10 times as
 great as the flow at Roosevelt dam.
 And this water is slipping away from
 Arizona and Arizona lands for the
 simple reason that you people of this
 state are doing nothing about it.
 Boulder Canyon Dam
 Here I want to say that the pro
 nosed Boulder Canyon dam will not
 put water on the lands of Arizona
 and if 1t is built it will destroy the
 possibility of any other dam that VIII
 irrigate the deserts of this, state. III
 opposing this dam, however, we are
 not doing any injury to any other state
 nor are we injurying our chances TOT the development and use of the power
 the better for Arizona. (Applause9 By
 advocating another dam We are, in
 particular, not advocating anything
 against the great power project of the
 Californ,a-Edison company to develop
 millions of horsepower at Diamond
 creek or Marble canyon. The Boul- der canyon or Black canyon dams are
 below the projects of this company
 and the building of the higher dams
 bv the power company will be of inn
 mense value toi US in regulating the
 river above the Black canyon and in
 desilting it. 9 t q want to impress this fact upon
 vour minds, Once dam is built at I Boulder canyon you can never deve- ! Top a foot of Arizona lands and you l have allowed the. commission Qf
 crime against all future generations You cannot touch the deserts of Ari-
 zona. with water taken from the Boul- ] der canyon dam because of interyeni } ing mountains the Boulder can | von dam is a certainty, unless Arizona stops it"
 I At this point MT. Reed gave a statis- }, tfca1 account of the estimated flow at the proposed Black canyon dam, advocated by MT Maxwell, with fig ures on the probable horsepower ob- tainable. there and it's financial returns which he and MT. Maxwell put at $20,- coo. .O00, a year when fully utilized. MT {, Maxwell then resumed:
 If the Boulder Canyon dam is built , tbe right to all the waters of the Co., , lorado river will have been annexed , bv California and Mexico, and Arizona
 will be waiting at the church. Some
 day your mines will be worked out | but the water mine that you have in , the Colorado water can never be worked out. What reason is there . that the United States should develop lands below the line and create there r bv in Mexico a form of competition 5 almost Asiatic, fostered by American l initiative and strengthened by Ameri- } can resources? (Applause).
 l .aThe thing to do is to get move } on now. Get down into the pockets 3 of the state of Arizona and provide
 the money to show what the Black . canyon dam will do where the lands 1 to be benefited in Arizona are, and 9 bring the whole stat" t~ see what you 9 are driving at. The manufactuflnS i and business interests of California S know that their future depends to a ,. great extent upon Arizona, and they f can be brought to see that the Black