The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-03-17
HOOVER CONDUCTS HEARING AT PHOENIX
 COLORADO PROJECT

PHOENlX, March 15-Herbert Hoover, secretary Of commerce and chairman of the Colorado river com mission, arrived in this city today as the governments representative. He will open the first O. q series Of hear ings this afternoon. Discussion of proposed development of the Coio- rado river will be the main order of business.
 At 10 o'clock Thursday morning, MT. Hoover will address the state legislature in joint session in the house in the state capitol. The com mission then will resume it's hearings in the federal court rooms at II o'clock and will take a recess at F o'clock for lunch, converting again at o'clock in the afternoon. The hear ings on Friday will begin at 10 o'clock in the morning and if possible the commission will close it's hearings in 1 Phoenix at noon Friday Unless ne 1 cessary, no hearings will be held at | night by the commission, MT. Nor 1 veil said yesterday.
 On Friday afternoon, it is the plan | of Mr NorveiI to take Mr. Hoover i and his party and the. members of 1 the commission for an automobile l IOui OI IIlS hIl- 1lOoNCl hio l party and the commission will leave Phoenix either over the Southern l Focific or the Santa Fe for Los An geles shortly after 6 o'clock Friday 1 evening.
 The hearings of the commission ! before Mir Hoover in Phoenix will ! be limited to problems concerning the | apportionment of the waters of the | river and the rights of the several ! states to the same. MT. Hoover, he ] said. desires to learn what uses each I of the states, will make of the waters i and what concessions if any they will i grant to the other states. The states ! in the Colorado river basin. each ot
 which has representative in the commission, are Colorado. New Mex ico. Ari ona, Nevada, California, Utah and Wyoming.
 :; Governor Thomas E. Campbell will :, address the commission on the prob
 lens of the Colorado river this after
 noon.
 !, ' Governor Meacham of New Mexico :; will probably be heard before the commission on problems of his state MT. Hoover and the commission
 may make a one day stop either or March IS or March 20, in the I'm nerial valley after leaving Phoenix
 The hearings in Los Angeles havt
 been scheduled for March 21 and 2:
 and the hearings in Salt Lake City
 for March 27 and 2S, and the last hearings in Denver on March 30 an6 , 31. During the interim after leaving Phoenix on March IT and arriving il
 Salt Lake City on March 2S, MT Hoover and the commission may
 make a trip through the Boulder can , yon on the Colorado river by boa
 and make an inspection of the sit ; for the proposed Boulder canyon dam
 The chamber of commerce has beeI notified that members wishing to ap
 pear before Herbert Hoover at tn ' Colorado river hearing must give no
 tice and each will be allowed 30 min utes. Mir. Hoover desires to have tn l. speakers confine their remarks ant
 suggestions for the division of tn l. waters of the Colorado river Member
 of the chamber are urged to motif
 the secretary Immediately so tnat al 0 plication can De made to w. s. Nol
 veil, state water commissioner an
 T,ember of the Colorado river con
 mission. MT. NorveiPs letter, whic l gives more details regarding tn
 hearing is given herewith: Il Tt is the desired of Hon. Herber 1 Hoover chairman of the Colorad
 river commission, that those who ar l interested in the problems of tn
 Colorado river be given an oppol
 tunity to express their views befor n the commission at the hearing to b
 held in the federal court room.
 Tt is also the desire of MT. Hoove
 that the speakers confine their di. l. cussions principally to the rights c
 the several states in the partition 0 e; division of the waters of the strea1
 system