Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-07-28


 to Mohave County; it will not irrigat an acre of land in Mohave County, s why, in the name of God, is Mohav County for it?
 It is not necessary to build a py
 ramidal reservoir at either Boulde Canyon or Glen Canyon; it would b.
 an outrage to taxpayers to build eithe
 of these structures as suggested. 4
 dam 300 feet high at Glen Canyon
 will protect the Imperial valley iron
 flood menace; a dam 300 feet higl
 will regulate the flow of this river SC
 that it will take care of the irrigable
 lands that can be put under it fol
 the next ten years, so why build this
 tremendous structure? < You say: '"The funny thing about
 the Grand article is that he seems to
 labor under the delusion that if the
 Glen Canyon dam is built, Arizona
 will come into. the use and ownership of the greater part of the water sup ply and all the other countries will have to get down on their benders and say By your leave, when they want more of the rivers water. This is the purest kind of bunk"
 It certainly is,- bunk created by you. There is nothing whatever in my arti- cle that could possibly be so constru- ed; you have added it. I am not la boring under any delusion except that if the Glen Canyon project is built whatever water is stored by the Glen Canyon dam will go down the river in an orderly manner instead of during the floods of May, June and July. None of the water would be touched except to go thru the water wheels and then back into the river, and mo- body would have to Ego down on their benders" what ever that may mean. The water being in gorge it would be impossible to divert it; it does not require an engineer or even a man with much brains to realize that if the flow of the Colorado River could be regulated and have a drop of 5000 feet, you would get just as much pow CT in this regulated distance as you would in the drop over the Boulder Canyon dam. You could figure this out yourself. =
 It is not question of the State of Arizona claiming any right on an International stream; it is question of the use of the water. You know, as does everyone concerned with this problem, that the Colorado river is not and never was a navigable stream. It is International in character, but unfortunately the Intelnationality on the other side of the line is mostly American.
 Again you say that I state that all the silt in the Colora- do river comes in from the San Juan. took this question up simply because the Director took it up. He took it up n the matter of the Salt River Val ley project when the fight was on with the San Carlos proponents. Silt nas never been great bugaboo to me; am not afraid of the silt of the Colo ado river. The Imperial Valley peo- ole are greatly concerned over this md they we'll may be, but most of he silt they have comes in below the mouth of the Grand Canyon. It is the owential stream that picks up the alley fill that has been brought in rom the sides, mixes it with the wa CT and carries it down. I venture the that when the river is con- rolled it will be clear stream below he Glen Canyon dam except when loudbursts or local rains effect the treams below the damsite. The Di- ector's report concerning silt coming If the top of the reservoir is a joke, s are great many other things con: ected with his report, and believe a reat many of the Directors own as- ociates, if they would dare to speak, 'ould be opposed to this project. I now that the United States Geolo- ical Survey engineers are all opposed it and l know that the Federal Pow ( r Commission engineers are all op- osed to it. am sorry that I can T ot send letter which I have receiv- ! l from one of the most eminent en- l ineers in the United States who has | ade careful investigation of this 2 yer, in which he states he believes S le plan which I have outlined will in g eneral conform to the proper solu- | on of the Colorado river problem. t 1 have been in Arizona twenty-six r ears, and in that time have been con- r ected with some of the largest con- g ;uction projects; I intend to spend T le rest of my life in the state; I am k ) more for Maricopa County, my pre- mt home, on matters of this kind, t Ian I am for Mohave or Santa Cruz d ounty. The simple fact that I live in a -aricopa County should not blind you s ) the fact tht you are being jobbed, V nd I ask you to put down in black ( ld white, in answer to this, just what r. -ohave County will gain by the build i g of the Boulder Canyon dam. d MT. Davis, in his letter to you some r