Show Las Vegas Residents Halt Haft Revelry To Make Fake Pilgrimage to Darn Dam Site bite LAS VEGAS Nov Nev Dec 22 AP AP- AP The heart of the great area concerned con conS in tho Boulder dam bill still I was echoing toda today with noise ap approving ap- ap proving President Coolidge's s signature signature signa signa- gna- gna ture of the measure The approval was wa's not unanimous however In Phoenix Ariz state officials and others opposed to the bill as passed by congress were ere I silent Yesterday they expressed surprise that Mr Co Coolidge lIdge had ap approved approved approved ap- ap proved the measure Only the day i before they had forwarded a communication communication communication com com- urging him not to ap approve approve ap- ap prove piove it News of the signing threw the Arizona legislature Into confusion State Hate Senator Coulter Introduced a motion in the upper house which would would have have authorized the appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of a committee to draw up plans for a court fight against the tice bill bUl but it was voted down on the ground that more mature consideration tion Uon should be ue given before a acting Las Vegas citizens thrown into ecstacy by the signing of the bill blI halted hafted their spontaneous revelry to participate In a a. solemn pilgrimage of ot thanksgiving to the site of the tIle proposed dam yesterday PILGRIMAGE MADE MADEA A motor car procession traveled the twenty eight mlles miles to Black canyon where on bended bonded knees citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens offered thanks for the safe passage and final approval of of the measure Business houses closed their doors when the news reached here as and aid l for a time tinge the carnival spirit reigned Shotguns pans and other noisemaking equipment was brought into pla play Gradually more profound appreciation of the event silenced the revelry and automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles fell Into line tine as if by magIc for the pilgrimage to the dam site More 1 than men men and women tell fell ell to their knees with heads bowed at the mouth of Black macl canyon while the tile Rev Boyd Parker of or Christ Episcopal church spoke the invocation tion Bishop Bl Ira J J. J Earl of the Mormon church told the assemblage assemblage assemblage assem assem- blage of the struggle of his forefathers forefathers forefathers fore fore- fathers in the pioneering of ot the Colorado river country and C. C S S. Reynolds pastor of tho the Las Vegas Methodist church offered a prayer of or thanksgiving The benediction was r read ad b by the Rev Charles Sloan Las Vegas Ves-as Baptist minister After the religious ceremony on the bank the assemblage gathered from all walks o oJ of life and all creeds walked to the tho edge of or the water water where the Rt Rev C. C E E. Reardon offered a pra prayer er for the safe completion completion completion com com- of the dam FLAG PLANTED Members of the American Legion Le lon planted an American flag at the mouth of the canyon Southern California envisioned in inthe inthe inthe the signing of the bill an end to years ears o of trouble Residents of the Imperial valley a great stretch of land Jand which now yields rich crops by irrigation foresaw the time when the menace of alternate drouth and flood would b be elim eUm- I mated The Imperial valley now receives s sits its irrigation water through a aca- aca canal canal ca ca- nal from the tho Colorado river A section section sec sec- tion of the canal Is In 1 Present plans call for th the building of ot an American all canal Officials of f the coastal cities of southern California particularly I Los Angeles expect an nn end to their fight ht for domestic water supplies and a new cycle of prosperity if I the dam darn and associated projects are completed as outlined Los Angeles has pans plans for building a aqueduct to brit domestic water from the Colorado river In Utah state officials were reticent reticent reticent cent about their attitude toward the bill Governor George H. H Dern Darn declined de declined de- de cUned to comment pending a study of the measure A. A B. B Irvine one of the leaders among the opponents of the bill predicted that the tho state would ratify latify tho Colorado river compact If Utah's interests are adequately protected Frank C C. Emerson governor of f Wyoming in a statement at Cheyenne Cheyenne Chey Chey- enne praised the pas passage age of the bill billas billa's billas as ds a triumph for the west |