Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-18
ARIZONA
REACTION
AWAITED
Leaders To Tell Hoover
Effect Of His Boulder,
Dam Speech. !.
BETWEEN DAM SITES
Candidate Improves As
Talker When First Shy
ness Wears Off.
By PAUL r. MALLON
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

(OAAteu IIeSS otdII COTTeSpOnUeIlC)
ABOARD HOOVER SPECIAL
TRAIN, Nearing Williams, Ariz.,
Aug. lS.-Herbert Hoover bade fare
well to his home state of Califor-
MIA early today and moved into Ari-
Zona for a roundtable discussion
with county chairmen here about
his endorsement of the Boulder dam
flood control and power project.
The Republican presidential nom-
inee expects the chairmen to bring
linn the local reaction to the Los
Angeles speech, for Arizona is as
deeply interested in Boulder dam
as California but is on the other
side of the issue.
The filibuster of Arizona senators
twice defeated the Swing Johnson
Boulder dam bill. Arizona wants
the dam built at Black canyon fur
ther up the river so that she will
get maximum share of the water
to irrigate her arid lands.
Hoover stressed in his speech,
however, the necessity for unified
action on the project mindful of
Arizona s feelings he urged that
nothing be done which would injure
the interdependency of all Colorado
river states in the proposed dam.
We, indeed want the greatest of
/ reservoirs in the Boulder canyon
! with highest of dams that our en-
| gineers will recommend, and | am
| hopeful that the project viii receive
| favorable action by congress- was
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extemporizing from his prepared
text to the Los Angeles crowd.
The nominee failed to mention
the Swing gJohnson bill by name but
his declaration for a high dam en-
bodied the theory of legislation be-
cause by a high dam power can be
developed. The unexpected endorse
ment was hailed by the crowd that
heard him and most of the interest
ed press of Los Angeles because the
issue is intensive there due in part
to the campaign for reelection now
being conducted by Senator Hiram
! Johnson. The senator has been at
tacking the so-called power trust
and charging that it sponsored the
move to build only low dam for
flood control.
When he arrives at the Grand
Canyon after side trip from Will
liams with the Arizona chairmen,
Hoover will be practically in the
/ middle of the two proposed dam
sites, with Black canyon to the
northeast and Boulder canyon to
the southwest.
b The nominees farewell address to
his home state was delivered at San
Bernardino last night after an in
tensive day of campaigning during
which he visited six exuberant
Southern California cities. There.
just as at the previous stop, Pasa-
dena, Hoover voiced his regret that
he had to abandon his restful vaea-
tion at his Palo Alto home to jump
in the duties of the campaign.
Hoover spoke of the campaign as
great task and promised that
it would be conducted on plane
commensurate with the highest of
American thought and feeling which
is embodied in California citizen
ship.
The nominee made the best ex-
temporaneous stump speeches of his
young campaign at the close of his
California trip and the crowds
greeted him more enthusiastically
than they have previously at other
points. He seemed to abandon shy
ness which characterized his prev
ious addresses.
The days schedule of his special
train called for arrival at Williams
at 1l:O5 a. M. mountain time. He
will accompany the chairmen to the
Grand Canyon arriving there at 80
p. M. The party will remain tho
rest of the day at the canyon and
will leave there at 1901 a. M. to-
morrow for West Branch, Iowa.