Show Ij I Case to Be Closed li y r I e I I 4 I I OPTIMISM M RULES r A AT 1 DAMP DAM Rt I End of First Week Finds I Delegates Moving Toward Toward Toward To- To ward Unity RENO Nev Jan 25 Associated Press Colorado Pre Colorado river conferees of tho the lower tower basin states finished to today today today to- to day their first week of conference e ein in an effort to agree upon a division of water and power without reaching reaching reaching reach reach- ing the stage where official overtures overtures over over- tures have been exchanged Although there were alternate pe periods pe- pe nods of ot hope and despair Chairman Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man Donovan who Is representing President Hoover In the undertaking ing of or smoothing out differences between tho the states of ot California Arizona and lOd Nevada expressed himself as optimistic for eventual success of or the tho conference conference- APPEALS FOR UNITY W W. P P. Whitsett chairman of or the board boar 1 of or directors of the metropolitan tan Uin water district of oC southern California California Cali Cali- fornia Issued a statement which concluded as the engineers tell us there thero will bo be ample water I I and power to develop our natural resources W wd vO should all aU make a Q united effort eUort to t tart start this project now no statement mado a pica plea for tor success of oC the tho conference and I urged the tho value of or immediate construction con con- of ot tho Boulder dam It I said Hald Nature has made the Pacific I southwest one geographical unit I Man has divided It into political bodies but that does docs not riot alter niter its Us natural unit unity The sarno same fundamental funda funda- mental economics are aro equally ap- ap to the whole HOPES FOR PROSPERITY By starting at this time tho the construction construction con con- of tho Boulder Doulder canyon canyondam canyondam dam and the tho aqueduct by the metropolitan met met- water district we C can create constructive employment for lor our people and enjoy the prosperIty prosperity prosper prosper- ity Il during durin a a. very trying period of rca readjustment which could not he le enjoyed otherwise by tho Pacific southwest With two major projects under construction our growth wealth and commercial activities should reasonably bo expected 1 to I double In Jn the next ten years ears and the benefits which will vill flow from such buch growth will far outweigh tho the Ic less s Important things which seem BO so necessary to U us at lt this time As tho the Boulder canyon dam dam is but tho tim stepping stone atone of or similar developments developments develop develop- ments and the tho engineers tell us Uti there thero will bo be ample water and andl l power ower to develop our natural re resource resources resources re- re sources source wo we should all au make mako a. a united unit unit- to start this project now no c eel ed 1 effort |