Bisbee daily review., 1922-06-29

much power Arizona will have to de-
velop its resources.
When this matter is put plainly be-
fore the people of Arizona l do not be-
Iieve the spellbinders can so vary
their vision that they will lend them
selves to sharpen the weapon that will
eventually destroy them
Does Not Help Arizona
The director of the reclamation
service, under color of giving first
location privileges to the soldiers, is
strongly in favor of the construction
of the All American High Line canal
in California, with the reclamation OF
some 100000 acres in California. i
wonder if the director really knows
how many of these acres would be
available for soldiers settlement. To
these lands must be added those OF
the Mohave valley, Palo Verde, Blythe
and other California lands which
would come under it. He modestly adj
mits that there are 100000 additional
acres in Arizona which might be re-
claimed. Therefore l say to you that
the building of the Boulder Canyon
dam, together with the construction
of the All American canal is, primar-
lily, a California-MeXico proposition.
One of the California papers, in com
menting on the possibility of losing
the Boulder Canyon dam, stated that
it looked like Los Angeles was going
to lose control of the power of the
Colorado river.
In the Colorado-Kansas decision,
rendered by the Supreme court of the
s0F
in delivering the opinion of the court,
quoted from counsels brief as fol-
lows:
1.-THE doctrine of riparian rights is
inapplicable to conditions prevail
ing in the arid regions, such doc
trine, if applicable. in such re-
gions would prevent the sale, rec
lamation and cultivation of the
public arid lands and defeat the
policy of the government in re-
spect thereto; the doctrine which
is applicable to conditions in arid
regions and which prevails there
in, is that the waters of natural
streams may be used to irrigate
and cultivate arid lands, whether
riparian or non-riparian, and that
the priority of appropriation of
such waters and the application
of same for beneficial purposes
established a prior and superior
right"
ane in summing up he states:
"At the time this provides that
if the depletion of the waters of
the river by Colorado continues
to increase, there will come time
when Kansas may justly say
there is no longer an equitable
division of benefits and may
rightfully call for relief against
the action of Colorado, its corpor-
ations and citizens, in approbr;a-
ting the waters OF the Arkansas
for irrigation purposes.
Arizona is in the same position as
Kansas. The building of the Boulder
Canyon dam, with all the waters
which it stores being diverted to the
California side and possible Mexico,
would leave Arizona high and dry, by
the establishment of priority rights
such as are now recognized in the I'M
perial valley and the Yuma and Palo
Verde valleys.
Water Belongs to State
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming can
not prevent 60 per cent of the waters
which fall upon its water shed from
crossing the Arizona line. l say this
adYisedly. 1t is common gossip among
themselves that they cannot use
fifty per cent of the water for the
reason that they have not the impound
ing reservoirs or basins. This is simple
thing. Their maps are dotted with
reclamation projects and storage res
ervoirs; investigate few of these, as
l have done, and see the limitation
of their capacities.
1 say that So per cent OF the wa
tiers of the Colorado river enter the