Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-28
Hayden Supports
 River Appropriation
(Continued From Page D

House on the subject of internal lm- provements. In this speech MT. Lin coin answered the current arguments against congressional appropriations for such purpose and said:
 Do nothing at all, lest you do some thing wrong, is the sum of these pos-, itions. No commercial object of Government patronage can be so exclusively general as not to be of some peculiar local advantage; but the converse is also true. Noth- ing is so local as not to be of some general benefit.
 ] Lincoln was right, and this Congress will do what is best for the country if, in addition to this appropriation, and for the same reasons we should report out public buildings bill and
 pass it at this session. Since the year
 1913 no general appropriation has
 been made to carry on the necessary
 work of constructing public buildings
 in the United States
 The Treasury Department has re-
 ported that during the present year
 over $4,57OOOO will be paid for the
 rental of space for that use of the
 various departments in cities where
 Federal buildings are now located.
 That sum represents interest at 5 per
 cent on over $9O,00O,OOO which should
 demonstrate that Congress can well afford to appropriate money for the construction of additional public build ings in numerous instances. There
 are many other cities and towns where it can likewise be shown that it would
 be of material advantage to the Gov enment to cease paying rent and con struct its own Federal buildings. In my opinion, at leasst $50,O00,O00 could be wisely and profitably expended for this purpose.
 Last October the President called a
 conference on unemployment which,
 after a week of discussion and con- sideration, submitted report that, l
 regret to say, Congress has up to this = time totally ignored. Among the
 most important recommendations
 made by the conference was that $16,- 2OO,OO be appropriated to speed up the work on the United States re-
 clamation projects now under con struction. It was estimated that by
 this means employment would be af-
 forded to about 32,0OO workers either
 directly on the projects or indirectly
 through furnishing materials, machin-
 cry, and supplies.
 The Reclamation Service further re-
 ported to the conference that the ! following projects had been thorough ly investigated and could be under
 taken immediately which would fur
 nish employment to between 25,00C . and 3OOOO men on the work itself and t indirectly to about 15,O00 more: a-Nevada-Boulder Canyon | Dam, immediate expenditure $5,OOO,- 900, additional to complete $50,00O,, 900.
 California-All-American Canal and laterals. Immediate expenditure $15,- 0O,OO0, additional to complete $2O,- 100000.
 Arizona-Parker. Immediate ex-
 penditure $4,OOO,OOO, additional to l complete $1OO0O,OO0.
 Arizona-San Carlos. Immediate , expenditure $4,000,000, additional to l complete $10,OO0,O00. 5 Total immediate expenditures are $28,OOO,0O0, with $90,OO0,00O adG- . tional to complete the projects. It is a great pity that the advice , thug earnestly given was not followed Nothing that could have been done : would have had a more stimulating : effect on business conditions, because it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the reclamation of waste lands not only makes homes for our citizens but creates permanent market for
 manufactured goods of every char acter. Congress is the last place where any doubt should be expressed as to