Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-03
TIME HER T
To CHECK
A \ GELES
c R A B
Big Municipality Is Using
Every Means Possible to
Benefit Self at Expense of
Balance of State.

c. E. Brouse, vice president of the
and chairman of the Interior Counties
committee, the organization which is
fighting the power grabs of the City
Of Los Angeles, has issued the follow
ing statement which is of especial in
terest to the people of the Imperial
Valley, by reason of the fact that the
city of Los Angeles is trying to get
hold of the Boulder Canyon power site
which properly should be used for the
primary benefit Of the ranchers of this
valley.
"The Riverside Chamber of Com
merce has called the attention of the
Interior Counties committee to the
fact that the city of Los Angeles. not
satisfied with condemning water power
already dedicated to public use in the
interior counties and vitally necessary
to the growth of this section of Cali
fornia, and not satisfied in holding
thousands of undeveloped horsepower
in, the High Sierras, has also made
formal filings upon the Boulder Can
yon dam site on the Colorado river.
This filing was made in Phoenix, Ariz.,
on July 9th.
"This committee therefore desires to
and counties of the state to a tele-
graphic statement from Phoenix, Ariz.
appearing in the public press, which
reads in part as follows:
"It (the filing by the city of Los
Angeles) is the only such filing in the
office of State Water Commissioner
Norveil of Arizona. who has been in
formed that the dam site and reser-
voir have been withdrawn from entry.
and the department of the interior
contemplates thei use. The city of
Los Angeles was represented by E. F.
Scattergood, Trent G.. Anderson and
w. B. Robinson of the citys' public
service legal department They stated
that they appreciated all prior claims
that might be possessed by the federal
reclamation service, but were seeking
to place Los Angeles above ali other
applicants.
"It is understood that 100000,
largely furnished by the Imperial Val
ley, already has been spent on the pre-
limirary work for this development
"The Interior Counties committee
wishes to call the attention of the state
to the fact that the city of Los An
geles is evidently from ti:is published
statement, attempting to again shut
out the interior counties and obtain
control not only of the High Sierras,
but also of the Boulder Canyon dam
site-this in spite of the fact that the
Imperial Valley has already spent ap-
proximately 500, 900 on the prelim-
"The Interior Counties committee
also wishes to issue very grave warn
ing in calling attention to the fact
that the League of Municipalities is
in serious danger of being dominated
by the Los Angeles power bureau, and
to point cut that Los Angeles power
bureau men are almost always the
principal speakers in the various
meetings held by this league-which
league is made UP of officers and de-
partment employees of the municipali-
ties it comprises, and that neither
farming, horticulture, nor industry
outside the incorporated cities has any
representation in it whatsoever.
This committee is led to believe
that the League of Municipalities is to
be used, not for the benefit of the state
but for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the city
of Los Angeles while the rest of the
state pays the bill-this through the
takin Cover, not only of the Colorado
river power on which the interior
counties have already spent large
sums of money. but also through the
control of water power throughout the
High Sierras. which water power
,rightfully belongs to the use of all the
people, but which has been filed upon
and is being held to serve the ambi'
tions of the city of Los Angeles.
"The interests of the state are con-
cerned far less with the how of the
Colorado river power development
than with the when, as immediacy i: