The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-08-11

OhCaPCl pOWOl, 6ON. hOLudo IL. Campbell declared Wednesday in an address before the Valley Luncheon club at the Hotel Adams, we will see the Southwest developed in the next few years more than it has been dyeloped in the past 20 years by the automobile The governor added that he believed too much water could not be stored on the river nor too much power developed.
 Nothing can be done in the line of development nor one dollar obtained from congress for the purpose until the states in the Colorado river basin get together, the governor said, and it will be necessary to cooperate if they ever hope to get any place with the problems of the river.
 In opening his address the governor gave brief description of the Colo rado river basin, pointing out that S6 per cent of the waters of the river originated north of the Arizona line, in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and : New Mexico; that 8 per cent of the waters originated between Lees Ferry and the Boulder Canyon, and the remaining 6 per cent from that point to the Gila river. About 72 per cent of the waters of the river. he stated. originated from the Grand and the Green rivers in Wyoming and Colorado.
 May Change Attitude
 These four original states, he de clared, claim they have the prior right to the waters of the river over the states of the lower basin and have maintained this claim for a number of years. The resent su- preme court decision in the Wyom- ing-Colorado case. he asserted, may change the attitude of these states in their philosophy of the river from the. stand they have taken hereto fore when the. Colorado river com on Aug. 2S.
 All four of the states; in the upper basin. the governor said, have am 1bitions to construct dams for irriga- tor and power development the same as Arizona and California, and when all sit before peace commits sion it is not a question of the Bould- CT Canyon dam alone but also of the dam sites in these other states.
 At present, the governor explained there are but two irrigation projects within the Colorado river basin that of the Strawberry dam in Utah. which irrigates about 100000 acres of land, and the other the Roosevelt dam and the Salt River project. The Strawberry irrigation project, he ad- ded is a case where the waters cf the Colorado river watershed are di- verted through a tunnel and taken from the shed forever, the waste waters. of this project going into the Great Salt Lake.
 Must Consider Others
 There are many in this state and the other states as well, Governor Campbell said, who hold that it is not necessary to consider the rights of the other states. but unless any thing is accomplished the states of the basin must consider each others rights This attitude on the part of Colorado, he said, led to the Wyon- ing-Colorado decision. Any state with a right on it's side, he declared, will hold to it,
 This matter of rights led to the creation of the Colorado river com mission, according to the governor and when this commission met in Phoenix yesterday in the first meet hing of series, it was for the purpose yef al1ocating and adiudicating the rights of the several states, but other matters came in, and this was not accomplished in the several meetings of the commission. The introduction of the Swing bill, he declared brought matters to a head.
 Arizona, he urged, should not fav- vt will give her no say in the devel opment of the river, which under the provisions of the bill will be nation alized from the Mexico line to the Green river in Wyoming. The bill he said, asks for s7O,O9o, 900. for the deve1opnent of the river; s4o,000, 900 of the amount to be used in the construction of the dam and s30, 100000 in enlarging the Lagun: dam and the construction of an "AIi American" canal. The primary cos of the construction, he added, is ,tr be paid from the power developed This bill he pointed out, does no . mention any other project than the California one. and is the though