Arizona state miner., 1925-10-03
PROTEST FILED WITH GOVERN
MENT AGAINST GRANTING DIA-
MOND CREEK POWER PERMIT

ton Association, and citizens of the
State file protest with Federal Power
Commission against the issuance of
Diamond Creek Power Permit, which
protest explains if granted would de-
Stroy irrigation for Arizona and Glen
Canyon Highline Canal and mOnopo-
lize the power.
Golfers letter follows to the Fed
eral Power Commission, explaining
protest in part and his filings made
for the state on the Highline projects
and due diligence exercised to main
tain priority:
Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 2, 1925.
Federal Power Commission,
Washington, d. c.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed find protest against the
issuance of a permit or license to
James B. Girand, for the building of
a power dam on the Colorado River
at Diamond Creek Site, which please
file in your office.
You will recall that on the dates
mentioned in the protest attached
hereto, on which filings were made
on the Colorado River by Senator
Fred r. Golfer, President of the Ari-
zona Highline Reclamation Associa-
ton, for and on behalf of the State
of Arizona, notice was given to your
commission that such filings had been
made, and since that time SAID Associ-
alton, and the citizens of the State of
Arizona have, by continual diligence,
sought to establish and maintain the
priority of the citizens of the State
of Arizona in the waters of said river,
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have been using all efforts to build
storage and power dam at Glen
Canyon and storage, power and di-
version dam at Bridge Canyon on said
River, and also an Arizona Highline
Canal to irrigate three and one-half
million acres of land in the State OF
Arizona. These plans would give the
maximum economical beneficial de-
velopment of the Colorado River.
The Glen Canyon reservoir and
power dam, and the Bridge Canyon
storage, diversion and power dam,
are practically the only sites which
can be developed to utilize the waters
of the Colorado River for irrigation
by gravity, and the construction of
the Diamond Creek Dam as asked for
by Girand and the Colorado River En-
gineering and Development Company,
which is composed of large mining
corporations, will make it impossible
to build the Bridge Canyon Dam later,
because the Bridge Canyon Dam
would submerge the Diamond Creek
Dam If the Diamond Greek Dam is
built as applied for, the waters of the
Colorado River can never be used for
irrigation by gravity within the State
of Arizona, except very small acre
age in it's lower bottoms
l am preparing and will file with
your commission within a few days
applications for permits for the erec-
| tion of the above mentioned reser-
) voirs, dams and canals.
| The construction of the Diamond
| Creek Dam as is shown by the at
/ tached protest, will give the Power
| trusts monopoly of the entire hydro
electric power of the Grand Canyon,
and by reason of the revenue from
| power and from irrigation being sep
arated, it would then be impossible to
finance and develop an irrigation pro-
ject on the River, and millions of acres
of land would thus be deprived of ir-
rigation and development and the
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| Attached to my protest are certi-
fed copies of past filings made by my
self, for the State of Arizona, on all
| of the above mentioned projects.
For several years before the Santa
Fe conference, at which the Colorado
| River Compact was drawn and signed.
| certain Mexican land interests and
| A111D Doxr to %x,s - -
between the United States and Mex
leo, to irrigate large acreage of land
in Mexico. This effort to get a treaty
failed because at the time the inter
, ests of the United States were pro-
| tected by such men as Roosevelt, Pin
| chot and Lane. We no longer have
these men to protect us, and certain
schemers are advocating again a
treaty with Mexico, based on the un-
| fair Fall-Davis report of 40@o of the
water to Mexico and 500 to the Uni
| ted States, and upon certain preju-
dicial and untrue Government reports
which condemn the Glen Canyon and
Highline Irrigation projects. Some of
| the reports did not question the en-
| gineering practicability of the Ari-
zona Highline Canal. but stated that
| there is not sufficient water for same
| Data gathered by gauging the water
of the Colorado River, show their
| statements to be untrue, and If Ari-
ZOna gets her share of the Colorado
| River water, there will be ample wa
| ter for the Arizona Highline Canal
| project without taking into account
the fact that the development of the
river will in time double the present
flow of the river system, and the pres
ent water supply of the river will in
the future, through improved meth