Bisbee daily review., 1922-06-29
James B. Grand, Pioneer In Planning
Colorado River Development, Declares
Arizona Must Guard Against California

Arizona line. / say to you that these
waters belong to you if you can use
them. II is an admitted fact that you
can use all the power there is in this
water from the $500 to the 500 feet
elevation. This is a drop of 5000
feet. 1t would mean an annual rev.
enue of more than $175,000,000 on the
basis of $50 per horse power on the
100000 horse power.
The building of the Glen Canyon
dam will impOund all the waters that
enter Arizona; it will enable the river
flow to be regulated to a normal of
| not less than 1900 second feet which
is only three-fourths of the recorded
flow at Yuma; it will provide perfect
river control; it will enable the sub
| sequent construction of power dams
over this 3000-foot drop without dan
| ger of flood menace; it will impound
the tremendous run-off during May,
June and July and allow power dams
to be constructed all the way to and
/ including the Boulder Canyon dam,
which at some future time may be
! built for storage for reclamation pur-
! poses and for impOunding the slight
! additional accretion which the direc-
| tor of the reclamation service feels is
such an awful menace to the Imperial
valley from those three small streams
mentioned
Would Be Calamity
Again I say to you that Arizona's
acquiescence in the Boulder Canyon
! dam project would be calamity from
which we would never recover.
] am minded of the fable of the
great Aesop:
A man came into the forest and
made a petition to the trees to pro-
vide him p handle for his axe. The
| trees consented to his request and
! gave him a young ash tree. No soon
| er had the man fitted to it a handle
| for his axe, than he began to use it,
| quickly telling with his strokes the
noblest giants of the forest An old
| oak, lamenting when it was too late.
| the destruction of his companions,
said to neighboring cedar: "The
| first step has lost us all; if we had
not given up the rights of the ash,
| we might have retained our privileges
and have stood for ages"
For Gods sake let us not take the
first step, to the end that we, as well
as California, may endure for ages.
JAMES B. GRAND.
! Engineer Grand points out the Ill
terror purposes OF the Swing-J Johnson
bill now under consideration in con-
gress as follows:
A bill was recently introduced in
| the house and senate known as the
Swing johnson bill 1t proposes an
appropriation OF $70,000,0O0 for the
construction at Boulder Canyon. to-
gether with certain canals But the
bill further provides that the govern
ment shall reserve to itself the eX-
elusive right to construction, provide
and control dams, reservoirs or di-
version works on the Colorado river
below the mouth of the Green river.
4 AS the Green river is north of Arizona
in Utah, this would mean that if Ari-
iona is ever to obtain any benefits
from the Colorado river, through de-
( velopment of power or otherwise. she
must depend solely upon the govern
ment to provide same. In other words
this bill proposes that never at any
time, or at any place within the state
of Arizona, can any private utility
company develop power on the Color
ado river. Just why the states Of
J Utah, Colorado. Wyoming or any 9th
er states to the north should be left
free to obtain any power development
or other beneficial construction on the
Colorado river and Arizona be denied
the same rights is not clear. Obvi-
ously the discrimination is unfair.
From the Arizona viewpoint competi
ton is to be desired Arizona inter
ests will best be served through com
/ netitiOn rather than through p mOnOD.
oily of the river, by either the govern
ment or private capital.