Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-25

point for the Boulder Canyon project
 was received after his arrival here
 In effect this means that the South.
 ern California Edison company, des-
 pite the fact that it has for a pro-
 tracted period been engaged in hydro.
 graphic research work along the
 Colorado River, had never until the
 current week known that Kingman is
 on the map, in it's relation to plans
 for the impounding of water along the
 Colorado River. This may seem
 strange; but there is no other infer
 ence to be drawn from the statement
 made on Tuesday evening by the rep
 resentative of the Southern California
 Edison company.
 The speakers favorable to Federal
 ownership and control of the proposed
 dam along the Colorado river were
 headed by Anson H. Smith, father of
 the Boulder Canyon dam project, and
 the man who first brought to the at
 tention of the United States Govern
 ment the immense latent hydro-elec-
 tric power and irrigation capabilities
 of the river. The matter was first
 taken up by MT. Smith with the late
 former Secretary of Interior, Franklin
 K. Lane. The high spots of Mir.
 Smiths talk were as follows:
 The importance of the irrigation
 feature to the people of Imperial Val
 ley, which first gave him the idea for the dam; the possibility of bypass ing Boulder Canyon; the cost of pow CT per kil6watt hour, as stated by representatives of Los Angeles to the public, as against the cost per kilo- watt hour as announced by the rep resentative of the Southern California Edison Company last Tuesday even ing. As usual, MT. Smiths address
 was an interesting epitome of the Boulder Canyon. dam project.
 Judge E. Elmo Bollinger, who fol- lowed MT. Smith, spoke directly to the topic of why United States Govern ment ownership and control of the Colorado river dam projects was to be preferred to private ownership and control of the same. Y American pub lie domain and resources for the American people as whole, and not for private corporations, was the key note of his address. He believed that mankind inherits the ages, but in trust only; and that the responsi- bilities of citizenship they hold, and the national resources they control, should be passed on intact to each succeeding generation. He took the position that the vast natural resourc- es of the United States have, for the most part, already passed from the hands of the public to the control of private individuals and corporations, and that for the most part the trans fer has been to the financial disad- vantage of the American people. He believes that such natural resources as are now our heritage should be held inviolate by the government for the, benefit not alone of we of the | present, but likewise for tn genera tions which are to follow.
 He could see no reason why the United States government with it's I immense financial resources and it's call upon the best engineering talent | of the country, was not fully capable of constructing and operating the pro- posed hydro-electric power proposi- tion along the Colorado river as the Southern California Edison Company or any other private corporation. He could see no reason why the sale of 1 United States bonds for this purpose could not be as readily accomplished as could the sales of the bonds of a private corporation for the same pur- pose. He took the stand that if the bonds of the United States Govern ment could not be sold readily for this or any other purpose, it would be useless for a private corporation to to do so. He assumed that a government which built the Pan- anna Canal in less time and for less money than was stipulated in the specifications, would be capable of building the proposed hydro-electric power project along the Colorado river as expediously as could pri- vate corporation. He was of the opinion that government which built 20 miles of docks and ware houses and 200 miles of spur trackage at Bordeaux, France, within the period of 6 months, thereby accom- plishing something which the British and French governmental experts had said could not be done in years, was fully capable of carrying out within a stated period of time any public construction proposition it might see fit to tackle.
 R. s. Billings, the last speaker of the evening, stated that the subject of discussion had been so thoroughly covered by the speakers who preceded him, he would not attempt to amplify their remarks. He closed his very brief adress by stating that he would