Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-18
POWER MEETING OF INTEREST TO COUNTY

atlOn SerVlce, unuer WnoSe ulrecIloh government investigation of Boulder Canyon has been carried on, will also be there. The Federal Power Com- mission will have as it's representa- tive o. c. Merrill, it's secretary. Di- rector Bain of the federal bureau of mines, and Indian Commissioner Burke will be there.
 A great propaganda has been car ried on by the Southern California Edison company throughout Arizona, Nevada, California and other states, and as a consequence many public boards, chambers of commerce and public men will be there in their in terest, but it is not believed that any thing that might be said in their be- half will defect the government from it's intention of building the dam. be- cause of the wide ramifications of the project and the protection that gov ernment control would afford the land owners along the lower reaches of the river. And especially is this true be- cause the Colorado is an international stream and there may be important questions affecting the rights of Mex ico that will have to be settled through the department of state. The control of flood waters is the one prominent feature of the damming of the Colorado river, and its ranifl- cations extend to Indian lands along the river at various points, as well as far over in Nevada and California. This feature of furthering Indian land irrigation will have more weight in shaping the government policy of handling the Boulder Canyon project than most people realize and we feel sure that if the Indian Department and the Boston Indian Rights Bureau stand pat against the proposals of individuals, corporations or communl- ties being kept away from the Colo rado river program Uncle Sam will be the only one who vii be given look in in the development of this wonderful project. ..t A...
 That something tangible will come out of the meetings at Riverside and San Diego next month is assured, the men having the best interests of the country at heart going there to un- tangle the snarl into which the project was surely drifting. The one bad feature surrounding the matter of the building of the Boulder Canyon Dam and the solving of the flood problem of the river was the entry of the stat es into the discussion, making de- mands on the government that were unwarranted. Uncle Sam should be depended upon to safeguard every right of the people, especially the rights that appertain to the states bordering on the great basin. The waters of the. Colorado river are sui ficient for all purposes, if properly conserved, and to prevent too great evaporation the government must not allow too many projects to have entry into the canyons. At the present time there are about twenty projected -Q -QalmS1CeS on tilc Soioi'ao Ai'
 various branches, the building or any number of which would be of untold injury to the farmers who need the waters so badly to further their IT, rigation necessities. The capacity of the waters of the Colorado river for irrigation runs to about 6,0Oo,OO0 acres of land, but this estimate cen templates empoundment of the; flood waters of all the streams as far south as and including the Virgin. The loss by evaporation over the surface of lake created by water impoundment is estimated at about 796 which, on several large lakes would almost dis sipate the entire flood waters, cut ting the water for irrigation down to the nominal flow of the river. ..
 Mohave County will have good sized delegation at the meeting and will gp prepared to meet any argument that they may be put forward against Government ownership and manage ment of the project, as we'll as ex- hibiting pictures of the damsite and the territory to be flooded by the im- pounded waters.