The Winslow mail., July 27, 1923, Image 8

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CONGRESSMAN HAYDEN
TELLS ROTARY CLUB OE
RIVER DEVELOPNENTj
(Continued from page one)
of land in Arizona, California and
Nevada could be irrigated from the
Colorado river, which would use
about 5,000,000 acre feet of water. If
the Parker-Gila Valley project, as
suggested by Mr. La Rue and his
associates, is cai ried out about 750,-
000 additional acres may be irrigated
in the United States, which would;
require 3,000,000 acre-feet of water
or a total of 8,000,000 acre feet. It
will be observed that in any event
that the water supply is adequate to
care for the reclamation of this ex
tra land in Arizona and California.
It seems to me that the plan to
irrigate 600,000 acres in the lower
Gila valley is worthy of the most
careful investigation. While $l6B an
acre is more than any farmer can
now afford to pay for bringing water
to raw desert land yet this project
may become entirely feasible within
a generation. By that time cheap
power will be available from the
Colorado river which will reduce the
cost of construction. The normal
increase of population in the United
States will not only create a demand
for more agricultural land, but
should cause farm products to bring
relatively higher prices. Undoubt
edly the inventive genius of the Ame
rican people will improve the means
of pumping w r ater, of blasting rock
in tunnels and of removing earth to
make canals. The prediction can
therefore be safely made that this
and many other irrigation projects,
the cost of which is now considered
to be excessive, will probably be
constructed
While it may be entirely proper
for the Arizona legislatue to ap
propriate $25,000 for a further study
of the high line canal plan yet every
one must agree that the commission
was correct in its conclusion that
$225 per acre is a prohibitive recla
mation charge at the present time.
As a member of the committee on
irrigation or arid lands I have list
ened to the testimony of w r ater users
from all of the federal reclamation
projects and in every instance where
the construction charge is over S7O
an acre the farmers are complaining
bitterly.
In some cases they have asserted
that it is impossible to secure enough
from the net returns from the sale
of their crops to meet the payments
due to the government even though
no interest is charged.
To reclaim 2,000,000 acres at a cost
of $225 per acre will require $450,-
000,000. That amounts to more than
half of the taxable wealth of Arizona
so this state cannot finance such an
undertaking. It is equally certain
that the United States will not in- :
vest any money in an enterprise
■when there is not the remotest pos
sibility that the cost of the project
would be repaid.
Every engineer who has studied
the Colorado river problem agrees
that the present time, with the ex
isting prices for crops grown on ir
rigated farms, there are not enough
practicable irrigation projects with
in the entire basin of the Colorado
river to utilize all the waters of that
steram. Looking into the future
Mr. La Rue in his supplemental re
port says the time may come when
“the water supply of the Colorado
river may not be sufficient to re
claim the lands w T hich may be found
commercially feasible of develop
ment.”
If this opinion is correct what are
we ‘going to do about it? Shall thd
federal government refuse to do any
thing because of the possibly that
all demands cannot be satisfied?
Shall each of the states of the Colo
rado basin enter a race to acquire
prior rights to the use of water by
issuing bonds to build irrigation pro
jects which it is admitted will not be
successful? Shall they file suits
against each other in the supreme
court to prevent development? The
answer to all such questions is that
the only sane and sensible way to
proceed is for the United and the
seven states to make an agreement
which will equitably apportion the
waters of ;h<- Colorado river.
The’ Colorado river compact does
not fix the exact amount of water
which each of the seven states may
use. It merely makes a beginning
by providing for a fair division of
water between the upper and the
lower basin in quantities which are
more than sufficient for the present
and immediate future needs of each
basin. The lower basin has a great
advantage in this arrangement be
cause water will run down hill and
that which is not consumed above
will be available for use below:' The
fact that the compact apportions to
the upper basin more water than can
be used is therefore no serious me
nace to the future of the lower ba
sin. That visionary and impractical
projects are being proposed in New
Mexico, Colorado, Utah or Wyoming
does not justify us in insisting upon
the reservation of water for equally
visionary and impractical projects in
the low r er basin. If we are bound to
have visions of a demand for water
which two rivers like the Colorado
could not supply.
I am firmly convinced that with
out an agreement with the federal
government and the six other states
there is no way in, which Arizona can
obtain the benefits that this state
should receive from the Colorado
river. There is nothing in the re
port of the Arizona Engineering
Commission which adds anything to
the rights which the people of Ari
zona have in that river. Neither
does the report change in any way
the rights which the United States
or the oter basin states now claim
or possess. Such being the case we
are in exactly the same position as
we were before in dealing with these
other sovereignties except that the
negotiation of a new or amended
compact is made more difficult. If
Arizona claims the right to irrigate
vast acres of land at some future
time the other ' siates will likewise
raise their demands with the result
that an agreement will be impossi
ble. If prompt development and
progress are desired the safest thing
to do is to approve the Colorado iv
er compact as written at Santa Fe.
| Quitchur Kiddin’ {
DURING THE FISHING SEASON
1. Size up your listener before
you begin. If he looks easy, add
five pounds; extra easy, ten pounds.
2. Never bring the fish home.
They shrink in transit.
3. Work without photographs.—
Many a man has been hung on cir
cumstantial evidence.
4. Take your wife in your confi
dence. Bribe her if necessary. If
that doesn’t succeed try another wife
. Fish without a guide. A guide’s
memory is notoriously exact.
6. Always go to some stream or
lake which no one in your town has
fished. If you don’t know of such a
stream or lake invent one.
7. After you’ve made up your sto
ry, stick to it.
WHEN DIPLO3IACY FAILS
America is slow to anger but quick
to strike when once aroused. Gov
ernmental patience is about exhaust
ed at the efforts of the diplomatic
corps at Pekin to gain the release of
American captives of Chinese ban
dits. Conditions are indeed-teerlous
when a country cannot protect its
foreign visitors. Imagine a troop of
brigands attempting such a wholesale
kidnapping in the United States and
mTEG^TY ts s i c
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m durability, refinements, performance, freedom from repairs,
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ra Every improvement the safety and practicability of which have
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5-passenger Touring Car - $1350 5-passenger Sedan - $2050
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I Old Trails Garage 11
|tHIS IS A STUDEBAKER YEAR II
getting away with it! The United!
States is as far ahead of China when
it comes to the necessary business
of law enforcement, as knives and
forks outclass chop sticks.
Hints to Week Enders:
HOW TO TELL THE BATH ROOM
DOOR
It is always at the end of the hall.
It is the last door you try.
It always sticks.
It is generally locked.
SERIOUS CAR TROUBLE
“Don’t you like your new car?”
“Oh, it’s all right.”
“What’s the matter with it?”
“Nothing, except all the family
can’t drive it at the same time.”
TES, HOW IS SHE!
People of the civilized world pause
to wonder at the glories of King
Tut’s tomb. Has anyone inquired
concerning Mrs. Tut?
There’s one thing about the college
graduate to be said in his favor: he
will never know less without his
knowing it and he will never know
more without other people knowing
it.
RAIN SONG
A robin sang at break of day;
And kept repeating this, his lay:
Ffcain —rain —rfcin —morel rain—more
rain—
! At least folks say that’s his refrain.
; Goodness! bird—dear bird—be gone!
The rainy season now is on.
I If you have asked for all this slush,
I would be pleased if you would hush
But in August, son-bright dry—
I would like to hear you cry.
If then you brought a shower or two,
I never would cease praising you.
< Fair Customer—What do you advi
se for a wedding gift?
Saleslay—Do you expect them to
stay married?
Now that we are back to normal
cy, will someone please tell us
which way we are headed?
Susan —I wish I were a boy.
Mother—Why, darling?
Susan—Oh, then I’d know so much
about girls.
Jessie —So you like suburban life?
Tessie —My dear, it’s immense!
Nothing makes you appreciate the
city more.
Sambo —How’d he git dat name,
‘Razor Bill’?
Rastus—Done carved hit out for
hisself, Hh reckens.
“Everything in its place,” mused
the cinder, as it flew in the fireman
eye.
Does prosperity follow high wages,
or do high wages follow prosperity?
A great deal depends upon employe
as well as employer.
Wife—What would you think if I
bought a new hat?
Husband—The same as you would
if I bought a new golf club.
Tom—Are you going to move this
year?
Dick—Haven't seen my wife since
this morning.
Fred Brown says “Os course wom
en make as good flyers as men. They
go up in the air quicker.”
Yt may not be necessary to remind
baseball players to swat the fly, but
everbody doesn’t play baseball.
King Coal is dead—temporarily.
Hail! King Ice Man!
o
A summer resort is where mosqui
toes start in about dark, just as the
flies quit biting.
o-
Actress saying she has a perfect
husband doesn’t get her name in our
paper with such foolishness.
Man who married last June to be
master in his house tells us he is
only paymaster now.
o
Caterpillers held up an Oregon
train. Everything Chinese seems to
have the bandit habit.
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Merit Wins
The sales of Studebaker cars for the past six years have shown y
each and every year a progressive increase. 81,880 cars were
sold in the first six months of 1923 as against 60,053 for the
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PARTY OF TFRISTS THROWN
INTO COLORADO RIVER WHILE
CROSSING IT IN THE GRAND
CANYON
A party of tourists from Minessota
were thrown into the Colorado river
the other day while crossing it in
the Grand Canyon on a ferry boat.
They lost the two studebaker auto
mobiles in which they were travel
ing and all their equipment. The
party, themselves, had a very nar
row escape from drowning but were
rescued by the heroic efforts of the
ferryman and another companion.
The party consisted of J. J. Kovarik
and J. M. Bruck of Moose Jaw, Sask.,
and six boy scouts of Minneapolis.
The party left Minneapolis several
weeks ago bound for the Grand Can
yon. They approached it from the
north and camped for a couple of
weeks on the north side. They then
crossed to the south side and visited
the petrified forest and other points
of interest on the south side. They
were returning to the north side by
way of the ferry when a cable sud
denl broike precipitating the cars in
to the river and very nearly drowing
the occupants. The party returned
to Minneapolis by train little the
worse for their experience but minus
their cars and belongings.
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The average monthly temperature
among the large cities of this coun
try is lowest in San Francisco and
highest in St. Paul during the year.