Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-12-16
SECT. FALL SAYS GOV.
 WILL BUILD THE DAM
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 through which the river flowed and especially the states from which the heavy runoff came, were entitled to
 their share of its waters, no matter what interest might become vested by
 use in the lower reaches of the
 stream. He cited many authorities
 and especially the supreme court of
 the United States in the famous Col
 orado- Kansas case. But MT. Carpen-
 ter was far afield in his quotations,
 because he failed to correctly inter-
 pret these rulings, which only went to
 the ordinary river, rising and falling
 in the United States, the Colorado not
 being in that classification.
 The one important speech of Sat
 urday's session was made by Louis E..
 Bartlett, mayor of Berkeley, Califor-
 mia. MT. Bartlett went fully into the
 development of power in the state of
 California, and showed by indisputable
 figures that power is being developed
 far more cheaply by municipal owner
 ship than by private ownership, the
 relation being from 35@o to 7O%.
 Berkeley is securing power from one
 of the large power companies and dis
 tributing it over their own lines for
 35ge, less than the same company is
 selling power for in San Francisco.
 He quoted the rates for power charg-
 d bv Los Angeles with the rates
 charged by the Bay Counties fowei nnmnanv and concluded that the hgh rate of power had driven many or .he manufacturing concerns from pan Fr,ncisco territory to Los Angeles where they could obtain power rom the municipality for about one-hail the rate of privately owned concerns. He moted MT. Jeffery's statement that Canada was supplying power to consumers at rate of about to lo, a saving of $S in every ten expenoeo bv people consuming privately devel- oned power. He challenged the power companies to refute his statements
 William Mulholland, chief engineer for the city of Los Angeles, poured bct shot into the Southern California Edison company, stating that that c.,poration had "filed demands TOT pover on every foot of the Colorado river. from it delta to its source m Hs Wind River mountains, and that o. the hisa mountain top there should h. ,,aced a tablet of "brass", inscrlb- eS to their impudence. He believed, s.bross, that the federal government should be let in on the job of building the great dam in the Colorado riVer' hut that if the government found l1- sdf unequal to the task that Los An reles stood ready and willing to put it over. MT. Mulholland was Of the on;n;o, that the Colorado river proo- lem was not one that offersd great obstacles, but that it could easily be subdued and made to do the will ot man. It was . great undertakmg, but one that time and work would bring to 6 successful conclusion. |
 But after all, the body blow that was administered to the delegations favoring private or municipal owner ship was the speech of Secretary Fall Brushing aside the positions taken by all the advocates of states rights in the waters of the Colorado river he called their attention to the fact that the federal government had never relinquished its right in navl- gable or international streams, hold ing that such streams could only be controlled by the government. TOO many complications might arise be- tween the different countries through which such stream might rise and terminate, wherefore the government had been fixed with it's entire control. Going on to the building of dams in the canyons of the Colorado the sec retary stated unequivocably that none but the federal government would get a look into it; that the ramifications of these potential dams and the diver sions of water were too great to al low of private control. The govern ment would have to settle by equit- l., able agreement through the State De- partment the rights of Mexico in the ,iver,and the reclamation service would allocate the rights of the var ous districts in power and water. Secretary Fall made it clear to all l hat he and the federal government ( would brook no interference in the l york on the river, and that he would l To everything possible to get early t lction by congress so that this great l york would be put to the front. He t avored the reservation of the lands long the river that could be brought V nder cultivation so that the boys who l