Show PRESIDENT OPEN Pf PACT Tells Dern Administration tion Will Not Oppose Any Reasonable Plan pran W Oct 22 AP AP- AP Assurance was given by President ent Coolidge to Governor GO Dern of ot Utah today that the administration would not oppose any agreement reach reached in connection with the Boulder caryon can car cai v yon on lam dam proposal al by the seven even J tates tn the Colorado riv river r basin The Utah governor declared that he felt an agreement would be reached although there is still a dispute over ownership of ot the river riverby riverby riverby by the states as against by bv the sov- sov The president is of the opinion Governor Dern said that it would be better bettel to build a high dam at Boulder can canyon on so that the Impe Imperial 31 valley would be adequately protected protected protected pro pro- from flood Mr 11 Coolidge cautioned the governor to consider the problem in a broad way but gave the promise Mr 11 Dern said that no reasonable decision by the seven states involved would be op- op nosed STATES VIEWS Utah has opposed the Swin Swing Swing- Johnson bill for construction of ot a 3 huge dam at Boulder canyon the tIle governor declared because in the opinion of the people of ot that state under it ownership of the Colorado river would be usurped by the national national national na na- na- na government He lie said he lie be believed believed believed be- be the constitution provides that in the case of a navigable river Its US waters and all of Its benefits ar are ara to tobe tobe tobe be retained by the tho state He fa favored favored fa- fa the tha development of the river but held that it should be developed in conformance with the theory theor that thai the states are to derive the benefit which would accrue from such de de- de- de I am not riot concerned whether whether- the I II I I I government should generate pow power r I and use it at the dam Governor Dern Dem declared or 01 whether private capital should build a J generating plant and sell th the power In any event power should be produced there because the sale of ot it would help defray the cost of development I believe that any powersite built hullt on the river should be retained by bythe bythe bythe the state and not disposed of to private capital The Boulder an on dam question ques ques- tion also also- was was' brought to the ore fore ore here toda today by Gifford Pinchot former former for for- ormer or- or mer governor of Penns Pennsylvania lania who declared that the most extensive lobby the power interests ever brought together would be in op operation up- up er oration in Washington this winter wint r to kill bills bUls for development of the Boulder Bouder dam project and for disposal disposal disposal dis dis- of Muscle Shoals |