Arizona State Miner

SECRET INFORMATION

Three New Power Sites Located On The Colorado.

E. C. Larue, making investigations of the Colorado with a view of power sites on the river, reports having found three new favorable dam sites there, but their advantages or their location are not given. "Surprising figures will be submitted to Washington," says the dispatch; "and at least one of the dam sites will figure conspicuously in the Colorado development."

Here we have only a vague bit of news that interests every Arizonan, yet government secrecy is necessary, and the lips of the government engineers are padlocked, as their discoveries are secret and not for the public.

One thing prominent in the new discovery is the fact that, under the Enabling Act, the new sites belong to Arizona and are made outside of the allotted five years specified under the Enabling Act that granted statehood to Arizona.

Under this act the time given the U. S. for locating power sites expired on December 31, 1917, so any new power sites now selected by the government for its California Power Syndicate belong exclusively to this state.

Herein is a clinching argument that favors the necessity for passing of the proposed law to set aside $100,000 for investigation of feasible dam sites on the Colorado, within the boundaries of Arizona. This state gains nothing by engineering investigations of the federal power commission, but such information is for Pasadena and Los Angeles power millionaires exclusively. If there was any doubt heretofore about the unfair treatment accorded Arizona in the matter of attempts to retard her development in reclamation and power, this last achievement must forever obliterate it. The average voter may now clear his vision and observe wherein the State of Arizona is handicapped in its attempts to retain her heritage in the Colorado river's resources.

VOTE FOR INITIATIVE MEASURE NO. 306.

Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Division of the American Association of Engineers, endorsing Initiative Measure No. 306, was passed unanimously at its meeting in Phoenix, October 4th, 1924.

Whereas, large sums of money have been expended in engineering investigations of the Colorado River problems, by the Upper Basin States; and

Whereas, in the interest of California, alone, since 1920 there have been expended about $400,000 in investigations of the Colorado River problem; and

Whereas, the city of Los Angeles, California, has appropriated and is expending $500,000 for her investigations of the Colorado River problem; and

Whereas, in her own interests, the State of Arizona has spent on this problem practically nothing; and

Whereas, Initiative Measure No. 306 is non-partisan, is non-committal as to any plan now proposed, and appropriates $100,000 for investigating the irrigation and power possibilities of the Colorado River, together with her legal rights in and for the State of Arizona;

Now, Therefore--We the Board of Directors of the Arizona Division of the American Association of Engineers in Executive Session, assembled, do unanimously endorse this measure to the end that the people of the State of Arizona may be properly informed concerning the development of the Colorado River and so that the interests of the State of Arizona in the Colorado River may be fully protected; and instruct the Secretary of this Division to send to each member of the American Association of Engineers affiliated with this Division, a copy of this resolution.

George R. Fansett,

Secretary and Treasurer

FRANK P. TROTT.

President of the Arizona Division of the American Association of Engineers.