Arizona republican., 1921-10-28
Must Guard Rights


 That is what I tried to do a few weeks ago, when other gentlemen from Los Angeles were here. Those other gentlemen were here to tell us of their hope and desire that the municipality of Los Angeles shall construct the great storage power works on the Colorado. I had occa- sion to tell them. in a spirit of the most cordial friendship, that Arizona will not permit the construction of the Boulder canyon project or any similar project in this state, on that river, to proceed until the rights or this state to a certain amount of the power to be developed shall be prop erly guaranteed. The gentlemen who are with us this evening represent another element, another school of thought, if you please-that element which believes immense undertak- ings of this sort can be best carried through under corporate control. properly regulated by the state. Of ficially we have to be impartial and we are impartial as between these l two schools of thought. And II can | only repeat to our friends who will 1 address you this evening, what I said 1 on behalf of the state administration l to the other gentlemen from the 1 coast-we are anxious for the con- l SlTucllOn OI lneSe great NOIkS on the l Colorado to proceed, and we will cor 1 dially cooperate in every proper way 1 in making the undertaking a success, l but-Arizona interests must be pro- | tected at all stages. Incidentally. it
 is immensely pleasing to the people l of Arizona to know that an industrial | undertaking which is epoch making l in size and which is of such immeas-
 urable value to this state is prob
 ability of the near future. And to | those of us who have kept in touch
 with all the steps which have brought
 about the present state of facts, it is | a special pleasure to know that it is to our Gov. Thomas E. Campbell that
 most of the credit is due for trans
 ferring the development of the Colo
 rado from the domain of nebulous speculation to the plane fo simple
 probability"
 Referring to MT. Ballard as an old
 friend, MT. Ely then presented the
 great electrical captain to the audi
 ence. Mr. Ballard's address follows
 in part:
 Arizona may rely upon a suffi-
 cie,lt and unlimited supply of electric power from our Colorado river de- velopment. to meet her needs and to stimulate growth and prosperity without any restriction as to time, excepting the maximum 50 year pe- riod permissible under federal li- cense,' said Mir Ballard.
 At the end of this time the gov ernment would have the right to take over the property as it's own, pay s ing the investors only the actual net I cost of development or to renew the | license for a further period to our company or to grant a new license T fn oil hn is s that no power rights under the new \ federal water power act passed by \ congress in 1920 may be granted ir 5 perpetuity. ] may also say that ir addition to elaborate provisions fol 4 approval of all financial and con- a struction plans, as supervision oi the work as it progresses, by th' 4 federal power commission, the ac q also specifically prohibits the capi- \ talization of the right to develoI A power in any amount whatsoever. A Within the past few weeks oul A company has completed its filing: 9 with the feneral power commission 3 at Washington, D. C., expressing oul A willingness to undertake the com < plete Colorado river development sa Our applications call for a develop A ment of three and a half million M horsepower of electric energy whicl s is two and one-nslf times the to N tai amount now developed and m us' s in the state of California" resumed ' MT Ballard.
 Tt is our contetion that the Colo M rado river development should b # made under one comprehensive plal Y which shall provide for an absolut F flood control by regulation of tn f5 river in such 9 manner as to provid E for uniform flow This would als q increase the minimum flow to sucl an extent as to provide water at al V times for irrigation of the entir N 100000 acres of land, which ma, be nade productive when irrigate E by the waters of the river as agains E only about 600.0O0O acres now unde
 cultivation With the main contrc E dam at Glen Canyon this can be ac M complished and still leave possibl
 power developments to the maximum H amout outlined in our application