Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-10-14

lars, for it has an intangible value
 not to be estimated in tonnage table.
 nor transportation rates. In building new commonWealths in the arid lands of the West the government is utiliz,
 ing undeveloped resources and creat ing opportunities for it's citizens. One of the primary purposes of the recla, nation law was to create homes, ano this purpose has been richly fulfilled Viewed from this standpoint alone national reclamation has amply justi fled all for which it's advocates hoped
 Since 1902 the Reclamation Service has constructed the irrigation systems to supply abundant water to 2,000,00C acres of land, and the capacious stor- age reservoirs of the government are furnishing a supplemental supply of stored water to a million additional acres in other projects, or grand to- tai of 3,OO0,O00 acres. On these irri- gated lands are now protitably em- ployed and satisfactorily housed ap- proximately 5OO,O0O persons.
 On the government project lands are 50,000 families in independent homes. The population in cities, towns and villages in these government projects has been increased by an equal num- Der of families. The arguments for increasing and making permanent the nations virility, prosperity and growth by creating more home of this kind were never more forcible and unanswerable than at this juncture.
 The American people cannot claim to have measured up fully to their op- portunity and responsibility until the deserts of the West and the unused agricultural lands of the nation have been replaced by prosperous farm steads.
 When measured by the yardstick of the financier-the dollar-the results of the Reclamation Service activities are enormously great.
 As a creator of wealth, its service to the nation and the state has been as great as in its principl task of home making. Out of the uninhabited and almost worthless desert, reclamation has carved an empire of nearly 3,OOO,- 900 acres, intensively cultivated and producing crops whose annual average gross returns per acre about double those per acre for the balance of the country.
 Power
 A vast amount of power is dissi- pated in the fall of the Colorado river from it's mountain sources to the sea, and large amounts of power may be harnessed for use. Imaginative France calls water power "White coal," and this brillian characterization suggests a coal free from dust, cheaper, easier handled, a supply ineXhaustible, which after used flows on to the projects be- low and may be used again and yet again.
 Thus on the main stream of the Colorado river below the junction of the Green and Grand known power sites on the Colorado can yield 6,OOO,- 900 horsepower with present iriga- tion and 4,600,0O0 horsepower with estimated total ultimate irrigation de- veIopment of the 2,12O,OOO. acres as above set out.
 Practically all of this 6,0O0,0OO would, of course, be devel- oped and generated in the state of Ar izona, but the justice, fair dealing and large vision of Arizona's people is a finn and perpetual guaranty that the distribution and allocation of this power would always be made with jus tice and equity and that Arizona would constantly keep in view the needs and requirements of all inter- ests, whether mining, railroad, agrl- culture, domestic, manufacturing or 
 Boulder Canyon alone, assuming maximum reservoir and irrigation be- low, with 35 feet dedicated to flood control, can supply 6OO,OOO year-round 
 A horsepower is a rate of work equal to lifting 33,OOO pounds 1 foot per minute. Originally based on ob- servations of dray horses, it greatly exceeds the average performance of an ordinary horse.
 The combined peak demand on all power plants in the District of Colum- bia in 1920 was 95,0O0 horsepower.
 The total development at Niagara in 1916 was 575,O00 horsepower.
 The installed sub-statlon capacity 1 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway identification is 1S0 horse power per mile.
 At 200 horsepower per mile, 4,SOO,- 900 horsepower would serve 24,OOO miles of electrified railroad, which roughly approXimates the earth's cir or the total railroad mile age in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyo- ming.
 As l said before, the complete and proper utilization of all waters of the Colorado river would embrace hun dreds of projects of various kinds.