Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-30 | Page 2 | Utah Engineer Fast Traveler

UTAH ENGINEER 1 JA FAST T TRAVELER Returns After Colorado River Conferences in Washington and L. L A. A Fourteen d days ys' ys absent from the of office ot- ot fice flee and ten or of them spent in a sleeper is th r ord of George M M. Bacon state engineer who returned home Friday from a I. a trip to WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington Dol D. C. C C. wl Je 1 n he attended a a. hear of ng-of the federal mission mission- and then made madea a a flying across th the country to to Los Angeles to attend t nd a hearing g of ot the senate investigating committee on the Colorado river difficulties EngIneer Engineer Engineer En En- Bacon left Governor D Dern rn in Washington Vas William WilHam R. R Walla Wallace Wallage e president of the Utah water vater storage commission accompanied him to Los Angeles The press reports c carried the details of the hearing of the federal power power commission on the Girand case said Engineer Bacon and I the commission could not do otherwise otherwise er other other- wise than It did for the reason that the senate committee is no now making inquiry into Colorado river conditions and until it completes its Inquiry and anil submits Its report to the senate it it would have haye been discourteous discourteous dis dis- courteous to say the say the l least ast to have decided otherwise than it did Dern w who o. o was present at the in Washington ma made madea e ea I a splendid presentation of Utah's position in the matter Utah has no objection to the Girand filing as such provided that that the compact Is signed by Arizona and the other states and when this is done the several states Interested can inaugurate Inaugurate Inaugurate projects in their states and push them to completion At the hearing in Los Angeles the case of ot Arizona Ai was heard and then when the committee e decided upon the trip to San Diego and andover overto over r overto to the Imperial valley I left the party and came home The claims of Arizona were gone over at length and they were Vere largely a a. repetition repetition repe repe- titian of or what las has been presented before Mr Wallace Vallace accompanied the committee on its trip over the great project t. c-t. I S