Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-04-10
LEAGUE OF SOUTHWEST
 UNANIMOUSLY SELECTS
 BOULDER CANYON SITE
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Resolved: That Congress IS here by requested to appropriate the sum of $50,0O0 for the use of the Recla- nation Service in completing the in vestigation of the Boulder Canyon Reservoir site, and that such appro- priation be made available at once;
 And whereas, the withdrawal from entry of the Ouray reservoir site in the State of Utah has checked the advancement of important rail road and other enterprises necessary to the development of the natural re- sources of Colorado and Utah, and be- lieving there are other reservoir sites sufficient to fully care for the storing and control of all the water of the Colorado River, without the Minnie Maud or Ouray reservoir sites in Utah, which would inundate and render use less 25O,OO0 acres of land, including several small towns and 10000 acres of Indian allotments, and which pre- vents the building of through line of railroad from Denver to Salt Lake City, that is vital to the interest of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado, this reservoir site should be abandoned, that the essential right of way may be granted and development assured to one of the largest and rich est mineral and agricultural sections of the Colorado basin; |.
 TO ABANDON OURAYL,,u15,
 "Now therefore be it resolved: That we recommend the abandonment of the Ouray reservoir site unless it shall be shown that such site is absolutely essential to the general development of the Colorado River; 4
 "Be it further resolved that it is the sense of this convention that pri- vate projects which do not conflict < with the proposed general plan of the Colorado River development should be permitted to proceed with the fullest cooperation of the government, and that liberal policy should be adopted ! toward such private enterprises;
 "Be it further resolved that in car rying out the plans of the Colorado River project, due consideration should be given entrymen and settlers who have been hindered in their efforts to obtain water for their claims, and that they should be given such reason able time as may be necessary to com plete their proofs. .t
 "We further recommend that no public lands be withdrawn from en- try, or if already withdrawn, that no such lands be withheld from entry and settlement, except those proved essen tial for the project;
 FOR JOINT CONTROL H
 "It is further resolved that the Pres ident of the United States be request ed to take the proper steps, through diplomatic channels to secure-if pos sible-the establishment of g joint control, by the Government of Mexico and the United States, of the waters of the Colorado River diverted by nat ural conditions through a portion of the republic of Mexico and again en- tering the United States, to the end that all levees, irrigation works and canals, constructed for the control of such waters may be properly main tained and protected;
 "Be it further resolved that the Gov ernors of the States represented in the League of the Southwest consti- ute a permanent committee and as such be empowered to take such ac- tion as they may deem necessary and proper to make effective the sugges- tions embodied in these resolutions; and for that and the general purposes of the league, they are severally re- quested to obtain, if it be possible, such financial aid as may be needed from their respective States;
 Whereas, definite results in pool ing the water resources of the Colo- rado basin and arranging working programme can only csme- through full presentation and study of all en- gineering data pertaining to rirrigable areas, reservoir sites, power sites and water supply of each State; r
 Resolved, that to this end a per manent engineering commission should be formed consisting of the State en- gineers of the several States and en- gineers of the United States Retla- nation Service to study the basin as a whole and prepare comprehensive plan for immediate action aud early development" 4lr. .t
 The sentiment in favor of Boulder Canyon was the outcome of letter written to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, over year ago, when the secretary asked for infor- nation relative to soldier settlement. Secretary Lane put the matter before Congress at the time and has been talking of it ever since. It was it's vast possibilities that impressed the members of the League of the South west, and the possibilities of opposi- tion from local sources in many of the other projects congealed sentiment in favor of boosting the one great inn pounding dam and the resolution of the committee was the result.
 George B. Ayers of the board of eD,s of th,c oa,,ntry H