The Coconino sun., 1921-08-12
PETTY EALOUSIES MAY DELAY PROJECT
 OF THE GREATEST POWER

1 Power is at premium now. The supply of coal and oil in not inexhaust- ible, but the source of hydro electrical energy is perpetual. Nature renews it every year in the natural course of events. That community which has vast supply of cheap hydro-electric power will be far in the vanguard of industrial and commercial progress Tn the present and coming years of development.
 All the developed hydro-electric pro- jects in the United States combined produce about 9,000,000 horsepower. The Colorado River alone will develop 100000 horsepower. Consummation of the project, therefore, will add 50 per cent to the available hydro-electric power resources of the nation. With the Colorado River harnessed and put to work, energy will be produced to turn the wheels of countless in- dustries throughout the west. The use of electricity in the homes will in crease. All the innnumerable factors of growth that follow in the wake of industrial growth that comes from cheap power will contribute to the up- building of the west and the nation. Building great dams to hold the turbulent waters of the Colorado will remove for all time the menace of flood. How terrible this menace is can c ly be realized by those who have spent sleepless nights and days, year after year, battling to save their all. And the floods do not menace alone those who grow their crops on lands affected, for all the peeople suffer when a crop such as that produced by Imperial Valley, worth S60,000, 900 or more annully, is lost.
 Besides producing power on pro- digious scale and removing flood menace, the Colorado River, properly utilized, will provide water to irrigate millions of additional acres of rich lands that are now barren. Viewed only in the light of its ability to pro duce additional food, the Colorado River project is well worth while. With the water put to its full use on it's fertile lands, the Colorado Basin can produce food enough, if need be, to feed the nation.
 The report of every engineering in vestigation declares the project entire ly feasible. Engineers regard it with enthusiasm. In a recent report on the Boulder Canyon survey, Arthur P. Da- wis, director of the United States Re- clamation service, says the Boulder Canyon unit of the project is feasible. He says that bedrock has been found at a depth of 1855 feet.
 Director Davis says the Boulder Canyon dam would cost about $50,- 100000. A dam 800 feet high would create an artificial reservoir with capacity of 26, ,500,0 GOO acre feet of wa ter and capacity to produce 100000 horsepower. Mir. Davis's report says the waters thus controlled would irri- gate 100000 acres of land, 60 per cent of which is American territory. MT. Davis's report forever settles the question that has been raised many times in the past as to the div ision of water between American and Mexican territory, for he states that the controlled river will provide more than enough water for all lands trib- utary to the river on both sides of the international boundary line.
 The Boulder Canyon site is but one unit of the colossal project and is the site suggested by the late Franklin K. Lane. There are three other major sites, according to the opinion of some engineers, while others favor the ulti- mate building of many more.
 The immediate goal of the people of the southwest is the early begin ming of work on at least one unit of the project and the ultimate harness ing of the river so that the full forces of the mighty stream shall be put to work for the benefit of this as well as succeeding generations.--Los Angeles Times.