Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-17
EIIinwOOd Not in Favor
of Boulder Dam
CONTINUED From rage one)

(COntlnueq From rage One)
ernor with the Legislature and with
the other interested states.
Il am against ratification of the
compact" he stated. adding: when
an agreement is reached by Arizona
with California and Nevada, let us
talk about the pact"
He would be unwilling. he declared,
to accept any final settlement of the
river uestion until the people of the
state have passed upon the proposal
at the polls asserting that while
am governor on agreement shall, with
my consent, become binding except by
a vote of the people,"
His statement follows:
"The Colorado river must be saved
for Arizona and future generations.
That has been a cry in the state for
the past three years. Rather, let us
use the Colorado--it has been saved
long enough We need action on the
Colorado. That is where we have
fallen down.
"The Colorado is an interstate
stream. The only way to get action
and make our rights certain is by
agreement with the other states
through which the river flows. I'm
fortunately otday we are not on
speaking terms with the other Colo
RADIO states or the federa1 government.
We have an open breach with Cali
fornia and Nevada. Frank negotia-
tion not hostility, VIII heal the
breach But more than that any man
who occupies the governors chair III
Arizona must at heart be desirous OF
working out a speedy solution on the
Colorado.
The legislature, and not the gov
ernor, has been given the final say as
to what this agreement shall be Our
last Legislature appointed a commit
tee to negotiate this agreement The
present administration ignored this
committee. We will never get any
where with the legislature and the
governor at loggerheads However
able the governors committee, it is
without legal authority and without
official standing with the other states.
1t can get nowhere.
Il am against the Boulder canyon
dam. l am against Diamond creek.
AS an initial project it must take it's
turn. I am heartily for the Arizona
Glen canyon dam. The Boulder cam
yon dam develops the river at the
wrong end first 1t develops it for the
benefit of one state and foreign
country, Califorpia and Mexico The
Swing johnson bill, which fathers it.
is wrong in principle. 1t is outrage
ous lie leaves Arizona out.
"Gler canyon is at the top of the
river in Arizona. Boulder canyon is
at the bottom Boulder canyon browns
five valuable dam sites. Glen canyon,
together with the dams below it, each
with both ends on Arizona soil, uses
all of the water and develops all of
the power and fits into every scheme
for the development of the river.
''That is the way it was done at
Roosevelt. Who will say that Nor
mon Flats should have been built
first? True, on the Colorado, low
regulatory dam must be built on the
lower reaches of the river. But that
comes afterward, not first The
Roosevelt system should be applied to
the Colorado.
Taxation of the powers generated
en- the Colorado is vital to Arizona
The right exists, the machinery is
lacking. Before any development is
! permitted on the river, the Arizona
! legislature must enact the laws which
win carry into effect this right of
taxation. If the layman does not, the
lawyer does know that this is Arl-
zona's hardest legislative job Every
one realizes that this state has not
/ the right to tax such projects as at
Roosevelt and San Carlos This right
| of taxation is limited to that char
acter of development peculiar to the
Colorado.
II What about the pact? l am against
| it's ratification. When we have Sc
cured from California and Nevada an
1 agreement justly dividing the waters
/ of the Colorado, then let us talk about
| the pact. On the division of the water
/ public opinion has crystalliZed in Ari-
! zona. Government figures show the
l flow of water into Arizona at Lees
Ferry to be 100000 acre feet per
| year-3O0,000 acre feet per year, or
less than per cent of the total flow
is all Nevada can use. Tine remainder,
which at any time shall be available
| to Arizona and California, exclusive