Arizona republican., 1921-06-13
National HOuS9 Members Inrtd
 On Tour Of j!
WESTERN CONCRESSMEN - THIF TY DAY TOUR TO AG HINT REH RESENTATIVES WITH COUNTRl NOW FOREIGN TO HOUSE LEA
By C. Q. AZ

wASHrSGToS.-D n C x7 Western men nxr l12rn niously and end (his co
 gress to ov01 - Of ra ways becn In the nation legislatur6 1ot majority
 eastern 1 krficulariy in house Of r6 0ntatives. has had btIF an exiEuou 6cAdemic conception of the west as it really ia This state ment is true particularly of the inter mountain country California r> known better From Denver to Sac ramento is mostly . blank to the accusative. but it is painfully true that is. 10 a western man Seeing -the west from a car-window- is not conducive to a practical understand ing of the west
 | MT Denison of ufinois. from the | committee on interstate and foreign commerce. addressed the house the other day fin favor of rcnamlnK tho Green river In Colorado and Utah 10
 conform with the name of the lower reaches of the same wxter-course.
 fact was brought out that the dfs coverers of what was named the Green river did not know that it was the upper portion of the Rio Colo rado- Mir Denison spoke in behalf of 2 Mir Taylor of Colorado. who intro , duced the remaining bil in the Sixty- sixth congresa He did not claim 10 , have a personal knowledge of the 2 situation. but he was In favor of the 1 measure because Mfr Taylor fwhc . lives at Glenwood Sprfngr) had 1s- s sured him ft was all right
 Mir Aentz of SevAda interrupted e the speaker to aak- -Has the Ecntle- y man ever heard of the League of the
 southwe>tT Mir. Denfson had no' . heard of the league MT Arenfx said t The League of the Southwest n may say. is an organization of rh,
 western states which has 10 do witt
 the development of the Colorado riv-
 CT. and while we were on that sub fect | thought I might mention lt
 The League of the Southwest con.
 tempiates the ultimate construction
 at Boulder canyon. in the Coiorzd' river near Las yeEas. of q -co-foo
 dam. which would make pozxibie th. Irrigation of approximately 3.coe .nc'
 acres in Arizona and Nevada and dc
 Ivelop sufficient power to electr1fy rhl Santa Fc and Salt Lake routes fu several hundred miles. and 10 mair Los Angeles and other points Il southern California as weIl as south
 ern Nevada industrial centers-
 
 r. sounded like a good scheme. an ,r they hoped ft would materiaiizc. Eu ,- here is the point. Conversation wit ,e members after the session rcvcale Id the fact that eastern men at leas m some of them. thought when Ni
 Arentz told them of -oo-foot dam D d mean a structure TOO feet long Ina lr would be a big dam In riiinoii n Nevada and Arizona men know A-~ Nak |. party of eastern men learned tha nt the reservoir created by the propose
 Boulder Canyon dam would be a bod 1T of water about the size of Lake On ex tarfo. they rasped-
 ne IL fs the conscientious effort C e western members to get the res r- magnitude and importance Of th ds great territorial extent have few rcI e. resentafives in congress- This f1 all seems to impress the majority WI n- a sense Of slight importance of fhc@ ss states The west accordingly suffa be in matters of legislation. or. if q
 that. it at least cannot progress or accord with it's ambition CT At a banquet held at the Ra1ei1 nd In Washington a few evenings sincc|
 great advertising scheme was prI m posed by western men-a plan whit SC would make A Utah boosfcr-' excL1 nd sion look like a primary picnic Do. lcomparfson- IL was nothing less fh< lst to take the entire national house as representatives on a 90 days tour cif the west at the close of his.specl
 Ises<ion of congress. and b&Gn n
 Irexular sess;on convencs nuu q Der The arEument wac
 ,r~ chambers Of commorG
 fn trade. and like orE11
 <f- great number of - a1 15 towns were spend lhs re- money in adv&fk 4tEns mt an individual cH 1I<-X1S not q lat congress 10 ~ and s> led and undersf1 6Qe vinced
 The talk 1 fM d continuo1 n TIE NEvAKl'