Show legislature RATIFIES the utah legislature has approved the boulder dam six state compact the house ratified the pact last week and yesterday the senate took similar action in the house representative W D hammond of grand county was one of the few opponents of the measure and did his best to block ratification for protection of interests in the upper house senator knox patterson when the bill was up for second reading vigorously attacked the compact but he was the only senator who voted in the negative senator patterson delivered a bitter against california in opening the debate he declared the legislature Is yielding to the california propaganda to the effect that arizona is asking too much and has no intention of entering into an agreement 1 I propose to defend arizona in her position said the senator and in doing so I 1 am defending rights as well I 1 am in favor of boulder dam but that mean I 1 am to swallow the colorado river compact and I 1 am not in favor of the damnable conspiracy against arizona to coerce that state into accepting california s terms senator patterson declared entering a six state compact will not hasten but will actually delay dam construction because arizona will not submit what will utah get out of it he asked the dewey dam can be built for and the flaming gorge dam tor these two dams will serve the same purpose as chef temporary work at boulder dam tor flood control this Is to cost 40 which will be a waste after the big dam Is built it will be saved it we control the floods at the two upper dams under a six stale compact and under this bill utah Is giving away everything and getting nothing will you get something for utah or throw bour chance away I 1 want to get something for utah said senator patterson and I 1 know if we take from the boulder dam fund and use it to build dams at flaming gorge and dewey as flood control units we will bring to utah a creat influx of people as nevada is bringing to las vegas people are running into the city from all over the world to make their fortune because Is to be spent in that vicinity in building boulder dam we can do the same for utah only on a mailer scale if we build the two dams in this state |