The border vidette., 1920-10-30

l S the construction of bridge across the Little Colorado River on the road to Tuba City in the Navajo reservation. This is the only bridge appropriation which he obtained. During the past eight years Senators Smith and Ashurst and Congressman Hay den have secured money for bridges in various Indian Appro- priation bills aggregating $2O8, 300, made up as follows: Colo rado River at Yuma $25, ,OOO; Colorado River near Needles $25, ,OOO; Gila River on the San Carlos Reservation $45, 500; San Carlos Creek $19, ,8OO; Moencopi Wash on the Navajo Reservation $6,OOO; Canyon Diablo and the Little Colorado River near Leupp Winslow $17, ,OOO; and repairs to the bridge obtained by Cameron $4,OOO.
 IRRIGATION ON INDIAN RISER
 NATIONS.
 While Cameron was in Con. gress he assisted in getting S5O,: GOO to continue the work on the pumping plant on the Colorado River reservation near Parker and $2OO,OOO to complete the pumping plants on the Pima re servation near Sacaton. He can claim credit for no other irriRa ton works. Since that time the Arizona Senators and Represen- tative have induced Congress to expend. $211,OOO in the develop ment of irrigation by pumping on the Colorado River reserva ton and $50, ,OOO has been used at their request in a detailed en- gineering investigation of the irrigation possibilities on that reservation with the result that rate estimates of cost are now ready for submission to Congress at the next session to justify the construction of the Parker pro ject which will comprise 115, 5,OOO acres of irrigated land in Ari- zona, when the same is thrown open to settlement.
 THE SAN CARLOS PROJECT.
 Ralph Cameron did absolutely nothing to advance or promote the San Carlos project during his three years in Congress but Mark Smith, Henry Ashurst and Carl Hayden have obtained $85, GOO for that purpose, as follows; Investigation by a board of army engineers $25, 1000; Investigation by the Interior Department $5O,. 900 and the Olmstead inveStiga ton $1O,O0O. These investiga tiOnS by competent engineers have demonstrated the entire practicability of the San Carlos project so that, as Governor Cox has said, it comes clearly within the terms of the promise made in the Democratic National plat form in favor of ample appro- -priations by Congress for the construction Of all practical re, clamation projects. Based upon the recommendations made by the army engineers, Arizona's Democratic Senators and Con gressman have already secured S25O,OOO for the construction of a diversion dam above Florence and $4OO,OOo, is now likewise availab able for a similar dam with bridge superstructure near Sa- eaton. The balance is therefore $735 ,OOO, in their favor as against nothing by Cameron.
 SALT RIVER AND YUMA RECLA-
 NATION PROJECTS.
 Ralph Cameron made no effort during the time he was in Con- gress to solve the difficulties and adjust the grievances of the wat CT users under the Salt River and Yuma reclamation projects. This task was promptly under taken by Smith, Asburst and Hayden with the result that Senator Smiths bill extending the time of payments on recla- nation projects from ten to twenty years became law and the amount charged to the water users of the Salt River project was reduced by $168, 542 and $962, 265 was deducted from the cost of the Yuma project. The Democratic delegation from Ari- zona successfully resisted de- termined effort to charge inter est on the money advanced by the Government for the construc- tion of these projects. The pay ments as finally fixed, amount to no more than interest for. only