Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-01-08
ARIZONA HOPEFUL
OF TRI-STATE COLO.
RIVER CO MP ACT
Settlement of Colorado Ri
YER Revenue Question Pre-
'dicted by Arizona Dis
patches
CLOS Angeles Times)

CLOS Angeles Times)
Settlement of the power-revenue
phase of the California-Arizona
Colorado river controversy, re-
ported as the stumbling block on
which the conferees failed to
agree during the meetings here
last week of the tri-state confer
ence in connection with the de
velopment of the river, was pre-
dicted in dispatches received here
last night from Phoenix, Ariz.
They quoted H. S. McCluskey
secretary of the Arizona river
commission, as declaring that
after talking by telephone with
F. A. Reid of the Arizona COM
mission, who remained here fol-
lowing adjournment of the parley,
and E. F. Scattergood of the Los
Angeles Bureau of Light and
Power, that a settlemtn agree
ment may be expected with the
California conferees with repect
to subsidy payments ON power
generated partially within Arizo-
na." The tri-state conference ad-
journed last Friday without reach
ing a final agreement on a solu-
ton of the problems before it.
Asked last might to define the
basis on which a possible settle
ment might be made, Mr.. Scatter
good said:
81 don't think l should comment
on it in the absence of the Calf.
ornia commission. am glad
they feel that the matter is hope
full; it makes it appear more like
ly that We will get together"
The dispatches asserted that nc
statement was made of the kilo
watt or yearly impost to be fixed
Mr.. McCluskey was also declar
ed to have submitted general
report to Gov. Hunt on his com
mittee's activities since its ap-
pointment two years ago.
Statement also was made that
six propositions now are before
the Los Angeles conference. with
the Californians accepting the
general idea that Arizona is en-
titled to revenue from electric
current generated on her border
and consumed in another state.
Alarm is expressed, the dispatches
say, over possible naturalization
of the river and "the activities of
the Federal power commission
are recognized as possible
menace to the states"
The dispatches added that the
commission already is asserted
to have shown discrimination in
permitting California to proceed
with a project for Los Angeles
that it intended to generate 20O,-
900 horsepower, while denying Ii
censes in other basin states. Re
ference is also made to pending
treaty conference with Mexico
over the waters of the Rio Grande
and Colorado, with the declara
tion that "our present informa-
tion is that there is a possibility
that Colorado river water might
be traded to Mexico for Rio
Grande water"
Mr.. Reid is said to have re-
NAMED here to continue negotla-
tions following the issuance of
statements by Californians which
gave the Arizona commission hope
that an agreement might be
reached before the~ conference re-
convenes on the list inst.
During the conference it was
said on the power question, Cali
fornia expressed a Willingness to
pay Arizona a royalty of 81 per
horsepower per annum. Arizona
delegates, it was reported, were
demanding Sc.
Just how the resumption of
deliberations is to be accomplish
ed is not certain, inasmuch as
the authority of the California
commission expired last Friday.
At the time of the adjournment,
however. delegates from Arizo-
na and Nevada expressed the hope
that they could find some repre-
sentative authorized to speak for
California when the time arrives.