Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-06-23
Build Boulder Canyon Now
 Says Hoover
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 plaining that the questions must, in
 his judgment, be based upon storage.
 The secretary declared the commits
 sion had found that the flow of the
 river was adequate to meet all poss-
 ible demands fer irrigation and power
 purposes;G with surplus of unused
 water. As soon as the commissioner obtains an agreement among the states the plan will be submitted to congress for approval. The work of the commission at it's next meeting to be held at Santa Fe, N. M., Aug ust 1st, Mir. Hoover said, would be much simplified by the recent decision of the supreme court in the Wyoming Colorado case, which established the rights of the states generally in the use of water. -'
 Aside from the other irrigation and power projects, the Colorado river must be controlled, the secretary stat ed, preferably at Boulder Canyon, as a governmental duty to the people and property in Imperial Valley. The Boulder Canyon dam and reservoir would not interfere in any way, he said, with other projects on the river.
 Irrigation Primary Importance
 The commission, the secretary said, favored the construction of the Boul- der Canyon dam. .;,e Ii m,Ne
 Discussing at the request of the committee, his general views on pro- Jects along the entire river, Secretary Hoover said that congress in legis- iating on the subject should give first consideration to the needs of irriga- tlon and make the development of power secondary. Congress, he added, should not grant any absolute power rights to individuals or private cor porations in any of the states.
 The emergency situation in the Im- perlal valley can be removed, the wit ness said, within three or four years after congress has legalized and work has actually been commenced.
 Along the course of the river, dam sites have been located sufficient to develop between 5,OOO,OOO and 6,OOO,- 900 horsepower but the demand, the secretary said will exceed the supply, which the federal government will generate, and for that reason con- gress should give consideration to plans by which private power con- struction might be provided to meet the excess demands.
 While not prepared to give the com mittee figures the secretary expressed that the Boulder Canyon dam would reimburse the government the entire cost of it's construction which he placed at $40,000,000. With in the next two centuries, if the gov ernment proceeds with reasonable promptness, every acre of land along the Colorado river susceptible of cul- will have been irrigated at total expense of about $400,000, ,0OO, he added. The Boulder Canyon reser- voir will fill with mud within from 70 to 80 years after its construction, the secretary said, adding that then it would be necessary in all probability to construct dams further up the river at Glen Canyon. He also would have dams built at Flaming Gorge and Dewey.
 The demand in Los Angeles and elsewhere in southern California for electric power was explained to the committee by Professor w. F. Du- rand, of Stanford University, who stated that with all projected enlarge ments of private power construction the demand would not be met and that with the estimated 60O,0OO horsepower to be generated at Boulder Canyon,