Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-26
DESIRE
ACTION
ON Dam
District Board Urges
Swing to Seek Immedi'
ate Appropriation
TREATY DISCUSSED
Mexico To Be Informed
Of American Claims To
Water Rights

Adoption of resolution asking
congressional support toward i'm
mediate appropriations for the con
struction of Boulder dam and ask
ing Senator Johnson and Represent.
ative Phil Swing to confer with the
state department regarding the u.s.
by Mexico of stored waters, formed
one of the principal items of bus
mess achieved by the Imperial .Irri.
CATION Districts board of directors
at their regular weekly meeting
yesterday.
This resolution further stated
that the Mexican government should
be informed through state channels
that the United States would not
recognize Mexican claims to Color
ado river waters based on acreages
placed under cultivation in antici
patton of the effect the Boulder dam
would have on irrigation projects in
lmnerial Valley.
A copy of letter from Repre-
sentative Swing to j. L. Cotton, act
ing secretary of state, was read and
discussed. In this letter, Swing
told the secretary that he had fol.
lowed with great interest the pro
ceedings of the International Boun-
dary Water Commission in its eff
forts to work out treaty with
Mexico relative to the division of
the uses Of the waters of the Rio
Grande, Colorado and Tijuana riv.
ers. Large tracts of land, he wrote,
are being brought with feverish
haste into cultivation in lower Cal.
iforna, irrigated by waters of the
olorado river.
"Of course, with the building of
the Boulder Dam, we could absolute
" control the river" the letter
reads, "but we know our govern
mcnt will never resort to the use Of
this force in order to compel an
agreement with Mexico. do think,
however, that il is .vitally import
ant that n notice should be served
upon McXico by the state depart.
mcnt, couchcd in diplomatic lang
uagc, and sent through official chan
nels, notifying them that our gov
crnmcnt will not recognize claims
for water that have been brought in
to existence since the date of the
negotiations commenced"
Letter Discussed
The long expected and much dis
cusscd letter of the Federal Land
Bank regarding loans in the valley,
reprinted in other columns of the
present issue Of the Press, was dis
cusscd and copies made for the
members of the board.
=. G. Gilligan, sole owner of Bonn
hey Beach in section 33, T9S, RIPE,
appeared before the board asking
for water delivery to his property.
A plan is now under consideration
by the board to work out ways and
means to secure this delivery.
l.. b. Pfeiffcr purchased six lots
in Imperial from the District They
are lot 104 in block III, and IL in
block 1876.
The connection of Dead End
Ditch with the Breitcnstein drain
was authorized by the board as was
also the $4,000 rental for the space
cccur'"d bv the tower on the Ari
zonl side &C the weir at Andrade.
Announcement was made of the
convention Of the Irrigation Dis
tricts Association of California to
be held in San Diego, April IL, lS
and 10. Formal meetings of this
convention will take place in the L
:. Grant hotel, with excursions to
the different irrigation enterprises
in the vicinity. A delegation from
the local board will attend this con
vention.
An excursion will be made next
Sunday by tho board as whole ov
or th" "rnnnd to he used by the pro
posed All American canal. 1t is ex
pectcd that tho tourists will get a
rcnl eP~'v st'rt on SUNDAY morning
and make n DAVIS trim Of it,