Arizona republican., 1921-09-17

Mir Ely's remarks were directed to, F. F. Scattergood. chief electrical en- gineer of the city of Los Angeles. who had spoken before an assemblage of business men. engineers and civic workers at the chamber of commerce. and who had made the announcement that Los Angeles is prepared to go ahead with the financing of the dam, the estimated cost of which is s55.- 000. .000- Scattergood, with Burdette Moody. also of Los Angeles. was speaking at the request of w. w. Lawhon. president of the chamber of commerce. who had called the meet ing in crder that the announcement of the decision of the coast city might be heard.
 After Scattergood had said that Los Angeles was offering Arizona an all 1 location of the power to be developed at the dam. which allocaticn was to run for 10 years and be then revoked if the amount of power allocated Is not being used, Mir. Ely made his re- ply. which elicited general commen- i dation from those who heard it.
 Speaks for Governor Campbell
 Requested by President Lawhon 10 state the attitude of the state govern ment of Arizona. MT. Ely said:
 "Certain duties. relating to handling applications for rights on the river, fall, under the law. to Mir. Noryiel, 1 in capable hands. I may, however. | speak with. propriety concerning the general policy which will be pursued 1 by the state administration. since 1 Governor Campbell has authorized me T to speak for him in this and cogna.e ! matters at Washington, and he now is out of the state.
 '-I stated that policy to the director of the reclamation service and Con-
 gressman Swing of California and a delegation from the Imperial valley m a conference a few weeks ago. and my
 statement was, substantially, that
 fully expected that in due course a proposal to furnish all the money for
 construction of the Boulder canyon
 reservoir would cone from the power
 interests O. California. which proposal
 would be welcomed by Arizona: that
 this state. having primary rights in
 the premises, would not permit con- | struction to proceed until after an 1 agreement which should lodge with
 Arizona a perpetual right to a cer-
 tain amount of the electric power al | fixed rate. Following such agree
 E.ent, 1 said in that conference, A-i-
 zona would cordially cooperate witf
 our friends of the Pacific coast ir
 making the rroject a success. As ts the form of the agreement, the con tract presumably would be betweer
 the federal power commission 7ns
 the prospective owners of the dam and this contract. in addition to ; stipulation that the water stored il |, the reser-oir- must be primarily fo irrigation and therefore must remail
 under the control of the reclamation service. would cont ain express pro
 visions for the protection of the com | monwealths of Arizona and Nevada sl . the matter of the powe--its distribu . ton and the selling price thereof Delay Not Necessary
 Referring to the legislation recent :, ly completed providing for a treat. z to allocate the waters of the Coloradi
 basin for irrigation, MT. Ely stated was his belief that it would not b ], necessary to wait for the completion :. of this treaty and it's ratification D, : the seven states of {, e basin and b, q q tl.e United States government-pro ', vided proper s.cps were taken
 satisfy the fears anC suspicious O