Arizona republican., 1921-04-06
REAL STEP. SOON FOR DAM IN
 COLOR ID RIVER
An Early Start On Boulder Canyon Project Promises Biggest Water And Pow CT Development In All World
The first and most important ste

The first and most important ste toward the ilding Of the Boulder Ca 1yon d m soon is to be taken.
 The submission at an early date of the report of the preliminary investigations at the dam site and the consideration of proposals to pro- vide definite starting point, will see the beginning of the development of the entire water and power resources of the Colorado river throughout its entire length, according to the opin- ion last evening of Arnold Kruckman of San Diego, Cal, secretary of the League of the Southwest. This will be accomplished, he states. through the adjudication of the conflicting claims of the interested states. Kruckman has just returned to the | West after long visit to Eastern centers, including Washington and New York, during which he devoted himself to expositions of the Bould CT Canyon dam proposal. finding, as he said last evening, an unexpected am mt of interest among the lead CTS of every line of industry and thought in the dam and it's possibili- | ties.
 | East Is Interested | The business men of the East, Kruckman said, realize that in the development of every additional foot of farming land in the West a new source of wealth is created for them They have found in the past tha even the setting up of a single con- structfon camp in this part of tn, country has meant increased revenu, for them, and they are anxious espe cially that a project of such com manding importance as that of Boul der Canyon should be placed upon definite basis of accomplishment
 That this sentiment is general i shown by the fact that the great pa : pers of the East have been more thai willing to publish information con
 corning the project and to give 1 their appreciation"
 Concerning the developments whicl are to be looked for in the near flu
 ture with reference to the dam, h
 said:
 Next month Arthur P. Davis di
 rector of the United States reclama
 tion service, will submit a prelimi
 nary report on the findings of tn surveying and Investigating part which has been devoting its attentio
 to the Boulder Canyon damsite dur
 ing the last few months. This part has discovered that there is a reg
 DeOrOck al EOulOer canyon ana Una , a dam of TOO feet from bedrock to to
 is feasible. This means dam (
 from $50 to 500 feet in height aboy the ground, which will not only pro
 vide water to irrigate about 5000. 0(
 acres of land ip Arizona, Californi; l Nevada and Lower California, bl
 will take away forever the desperat {. need of ~agricufturists Tn the lowe , basin of the Colorado river for floo i, control-a need which has been th :. most insistent force behind the move !, ment for dam at any of the tents | tive sites which have been under cor . sideration.
 d Claims to Be Adjusted
 Director Davis report will be sut
 mitted to the secretary of the interio
 who in turn will present it to COT
 gress for consideration. With tn
 done there will come what is relieve v to be the most important difficult
 to be faced and upon the right settl,
 m ment of which the success of the CT
 tire project depends. This is the at
 judication of the claims of the vs
 rious states which are interested
 tNe development of the Colorat . river Arizona California, Uta Q Colorado. Nevada, Wyoming and Ne Mexico.
 ,o The building of the Boulder Cal n yon dam means. of course, the d. n velopment and safety of the low - Colorado river tas'n. This in itse