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perial valley from a point located in the republic of Mexico.
 Tt is also a fact that those who are fighting Arizona the hardest, are those who hold tremendous acreage in Mexico, and who really want to block reclamation projects higher up the river, in order to develop their own property in Mexico
 Discussing public versus private ownership, Greenway stated his opin- ion that private ownership was pref erable.
 ITO tack advantage of the Colo radO by public enterprise will neees- sitate an amendment to the state con stitution," he declared. Then, sup posing that the site selected were Glenn canyon, which probably would be the case, a bopdF issue of $71,OO0,- 900, the estimated cost of that prof ect, would have to be voted; And then that money would have to be disbursed by politicians instead of business men,.
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 Regarding the private construction of a project at Diamond creek, the Iol- lowing are the facts; A dam, com plete power plant, and distribution system covering this state could pc constructed at an estimated cost ol S36, ,000, ,000 Work on such proJeel could be started within six months ar ter the license is granted by the fed eral government, and in four years, we could begin to deliver power.
 "The interests of the people of Arl- zona would be taken care of through to corporation commission, which have ! the authority to regulate rates. IT, al i ter a fair period of trial, the state be lieved public operation preferable to 1 private operation. the people of Arr zona could do what the people Of Cal i ifornia are preparing to do with pup ] lie utilities-condeInn the plant ane purchase it at a fair valuation. III other words the people will always i hold an option on the Diamond Greek project, and we still take all the risks l If it proves successful and state owner ship is desired then it can be pur l chased by the state through condem nation proceedings. But the statS stands none of the risks and expenses 1 during the constructio period.
 But, before anything is done, it i' up to the people of this state to xii the Swing bill, which is aimed direct ly at Arizona's rights.
 There are two objections to this bill.
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 "One is the fact that it absolutel! forebids to Arizona the right to de velop the Colorado, while allowing that right to states higher up the rive The second objection is that the bil provides for the construction of ; power plant at Boulder canyon, whicl as I have already said, means the el imination of possible highline reclama tion project for Arizona.
 [ Greenway declared in the course o his speech that the people of the I'm to protection from flood which h. described as a real and terrible men ace, but asserted that the Boulder can yon was not the quickest way to ob Sain that relief.--He said. that accord ! ing to engineering experts, the Boulde canyon dam could not be built within a generation, and cited the engineer ing difficulties in the was as follows 1 The necessity NOf excavating 137 fee to bedrock as against 57 at Gleen can y Ou, dHuI lle ldCl Ludl d 0Up-lOOI uou at Boulder canyon would impound onl. 1 25,000,000 acre feet, while dam of tn same height at Glenn canyon woul' impound 40,000,000 acre feet
 He asserted that project at Diamon creek would produce three times a much power as the state at presen consumes.
 Following General Greenways ac dress, the meeting, which was pro sided over by Robert Rae, unanimous ly passed d motion proposed by J. I Boyle to communicate. personally, { President Harding personally. the prC
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