| Show senator auerbach in talk at U B I 1 C tells of our I 1 part in colo river pact III I 1 appreciate thin this to appear as one of your speakers pe akers that I 1 pay my humble tribute to the men abd omen 0 of this basin cour country itry who by their toll too and in 1 cout course ge have wrought this marvelous marvel olm transformation it has been a real conquest I 1 can conceive ot of no greater courage than that required ot of men and part particia icil barly the women who first settled this section U Is the same su prema dreme quality ot at courage shown by the pioneers of our state and ot at the I 1 tar eat est ft ho lie braved sickness and 4 death and defied the rigors ot of the ele element mentz when they began the set of 0 our commonwealth I 1 have bave visualized these valleys a as a they wire were but a few years since a A their enow c nur surfaces facea everz were 1 dept ept by bleak hilli hilling winter winds wind 9 or r their sun baked landa lands lay gibrat ing beneath the summer heat scorching scant vegetation causing it to era sera and wither but more than my desire to see tor for the first time your wonderful resources ot of land and water ot of coal at 0 oil shale and mineral wealth has been my besre desire to meet the courageous men and women omen aho ho have redeemed his desert land there Is I 1 something om ething in the human ma galietto lietto that creates an attachment in fit the soula souls of men and women tor for their homes and their homelands this sentiment will lie dormant or it will weaken eaken in the individual I 1 if f a place chosen tor for home making I 1 ie s beset by adversities that severely try or that aro arn beyond t N power ot of men and omen to end e from the commencement as set tiers of this great region the task has been ours of bull building din dams ot of constructing canals and laterals from front the rivers and tributaries traversing tatt country so tha the life giving water might be brought to the parched land this has been to B before any reward whatever could be obtained for or your labors lour succeed hag has only beati u realized perhaps in many ca tas atter after heart breaking failures and bitter disappointment there have been ciba no doubt athen hen the isolation from bour our forner tor homes und and life tons 1009 friend friends has paused caused anguish and heart ache and homesickness the feeling 1 has welled bip p 11 your hearte that our state and its oft ceals and ita tta people were remiss in not extending extend ins to you the aid and en coura gement your great undertaking merited but in spite of thia lack of assistance hundreds of thousands of acrea acres of barren unproductive land havo have been made to smile with lux a lint crops and by reason of at your determination and your labore labors are sustaining thousand thousands of at rep reser 3 tive citizens of at our commonwealth com the gruelling gruenling gru elling experience experienc ei incidental den to the pioneer work in the PS at of your homes a aud ud farms firms I 1 roved beyond the pomar ot of endurance endure ot of bome some who settled here in the beginning they suffered ue red the reaction of these sentiments tha I 1 have referred to and many 0 at them quit these part parts disappointed un friendly and with expressions ot of dh tits parlement par gement saying that it rould could never be made an attra attractive active place tor for future settlement and home building you men and women of iron cour age we atho bo remained and through whose foresight and perseverance thee vallea valles lave been made habit able you are the men and the ow en that are indeed entitled to hon hen or and praise since the b lilue sue has ha arisen in evolving the rights to the use of the waters of the colorato Col oralo river and of 0 ltv 1 tributaries I 1 have out from every o 0 ot at information available a knoRI knowledge edge ot of your oun coun try the evidence of 0 tie its potential greatness both agricultural and mineral hare have to me been astound ing inc the immense deposits of eaith a evidenced by your mountain 8 of 0 oil ia hale shale by your you r well ah anex haut elble beds of 0 coal your vast tie do a of 0 asphaltum and carbon carbons besides other valuable min arala which are of such immense Im niease alue that they almost suffer the imagination have litte assured nii mat th the e time la is not tar far distant when ea batern stern utah okill be ak ot of great prosperity in nearly all parts of 0 our land where hidden wealth hae bait been found the r cords shaw that these section ii hare have been arf subdued through the cultivation ot at tue the soil sol but this means nul table living conditions were created for the inhabitant inhabitants before the genius and ingenuity ot at men were direL directed ted toward the tion of 0 the mineral resource resources this early rio period bag hag ably been th time in the people a lives bad road with a sad lack ot of proper transportation are one ot of the greatest handicaps a pioneer ro re blon lion suffers farou trou in r r early aly period of development and barde hip the paternal hand of at the state should have been extended exter ded in aid and encouragement to the tants who were engaged in the her ole work at 0 subduing the uil ap re sources of 0 this thi section it la is a matter of 0 regret and d a appo appointment ointment tb th I 1 other attain affairs 0 our young state bad had so engrossed attention of the officials of utah the cries tor for help from the early settlers ot of thit thi i region wera unheeded and the th pita pleas tor for butter miter road roads and transportation to assist in op ening ning this vast region tor for moro rapid settlement ett lement were denied them it seems to me that in these past a shortcomings hort comings on the part ot of the dale they signally tailed failed to realize how ON important this rich section it Is to the future ot of utah there are many in y regions ot at the west that are desolate and uninhabited because they are without the two great ea es necessary for or their develop ment in nearly every state of 0 the arid west there are valleys valles contain inu ing man mann thousand ot of acres ot of ter tile land but bat are consign consig 1 to enduring desolation deto lation unless trim frim me source water can b abrought brought tor for irrigation thin making euch such lands bul table tor for human nab hab ration when oil this ferut sup step ha ims been accomplished and these re regions gibris have been reduced to cultivation by he lie introduction of water the next gibat requisite tor for future deeloy ment is the availability of cheap and abundant power do h thee re in n your basin country have been provided tor for by a generou generous cre lator later your rivera rivers and tributaries carry abundant water supply not on ly y ample to give moisture to many many ninny thousands ot of acres but within the bosoni bosom ot at these streams there Is potential sufficient to develop many hundreds of thousands of elec trica horse these vast resources cannot remain unoccupied and unused much longer the day must soon arrive when your section will be threaded with a net work of splendid high was waa the friendly co operation ot our state and national government i III be extended to you in this tremendous program of development develop Tient I 1 has been confessedly a abort short fighter lighted attitude on the par part of many of prominent citizens cit lieng ot of utah that they have limited their conception of the resources of our a ate largey to the older settled cities and settlements located in the western vallens in a great many of these localities their ater re are fully utilized future extension of at farming lands has been long since circumscribed A strong sentiment Is being de in salt lake city ogden logan provo and many other utah to plan in the near future tor for an augmented water supply to serve the urgent growing needs reeds of 0 oui population ll however oever this can only be accomplished by expensive re reservoir ervol and canah cann that ilia may dl 11 ll ver available waters from distant orrcee now ow that a beginning has been made in the program of opening up by good roal roa and easy transports tran tion your attractive valleys that through our toll tell and suffering have been demonstrated capable of producing luxuriant and remunerative crops of all kinds I 1 am very sure hat that a large part of our overflow population will seek out in ever in creaking cre aIng numbers this wonderful ond erful section of the state it seems seem to me it requires no prophetic vision to predict a great influx of people the fertile soils of 0 these thene valleys will be made to sustain in fit the near future a teeming leml ng population the power of ohp great Cu colorado lorado river and its many tribu baries will be controlled so that elec elee trie energy tor for lightening the labors ot of farming for propelling the wa canery of factor factories leq and for anil bating the homes ot of your people and the of your bejes will III toon soon be realized the dimand of the people of your section tor for aid from our state and nation in building suitable highways in the construction of 0 reservoir for the con conservation of nater ater and the building of canals to irrigate the diany many thousands of unredeemed ter tile acre acres mint must rat be further do d tiled you the knowis knowledge dge that Is now had of the tremendous pos possibly aties ol 01 this section will bring before another short generation has elapsed ei the realization that a large part ot of the wealth and alon of 0 utah will be found on thi thio de of the wasatch Va atch satch range I 1 have endeavored to to yoi on this occasion what I 1 sin cetel believe the future holds in tore more tor for the population of thi this section realizing as an I 1 do the pressure of economic conditions that exist not only here in utah bat but throughout our nation and throughout the civil izea world I 1 am absolutely that the day when hen these thins things will be brought to P la Is indeed near ilia III ory bai repeatedly demonstrated that man many Y of the great treat event events bien have transpired la in the live atves s ot of catlong rations have leen heen modi modified lied ajr j good or tor for evil by seemingly 1 leant incident Poll cli ift that have ben ba determined upon by stat m and i nation nal loin with regard to mat era er in evolving their future ot of bar hate had an adverse effect thai that wao beyond the he reasoning pow tr r ot of their advocate to forges arsee I 1 we Vs are facing a laua ion today eteh vitally concerns this tomed late locality and the future interest luteri of ou its inhabitants the lems involved will tax the wisdom and judgment of our bes citizens to su tsa ess tully fully solve the es ern halt of utah ie is tra versed almost from rom end to end by one of a t america 9 greatest rivers the colorado river and lea its dyste system n ot at tributaries this abi interstate and in i ter national stream whose waters are claimed by seven of our western corn com and Alexi mexico ct la Is led ted in n a large part by springs brooks creeks creek and other tributaries hat that are sup piling the irrigation and culinary water tor for your home homes your garden gardens and your farms arm it la Is only recently that the claimants of this water hate hae been trough brough to a harp sharp that adverse rights to lla its uise may bring to all the settlers ot at the colo rado ratio river basin endless trouble and anti ex phe i lou farmer oi of this region in ani common va ith the water ater users thru out the arid arf familiar with the law governing the a to the use ot of water you are acquainted with the fact that the individual or company that makes a filing and conform conforms to the legal requirements in putting this water to a beneficial we use Ls U protected tor for all time by the authority of the state ui lit the th 1 ual right to the use ot of such water aa As tn in the cage case of at water filing filings that are within our state ao so it ie Is also in the case ot at filings in an so interstate river the individual or company that first reduce a them to a beneficial we la 13 protected ted eted by the federal courts in the perpetual enjoyment of such ater sater right rights inith alth this law by the decisions of 0 our supreme court we are brought to realize that the water arising in our mountain heigh a an vowing through your valley valleys musi must be selaer upon if you yon are to permanently manent ly enjoy them before comm mun unities ittes ot of other states through whose domain these water paes pass fila file on these aayers and aro are ahead ot of you alth their rights these rights once em abolished ablis hEd at the loer 1 end ot of the colorado river can be up by their possessors to the very headwaters oi of your aln tab tah basin streams this fast rule governing these pre precious clous water right rights whether ap piled plied to w iter tor the purpose ot of irrigation or for the generation of tower lower can in th case of this interstate liver river be in only one aaa ai it I 1 the official officials ot of the seven states tates whose rights are round found in n this river a reach a mutual un der standing and by meang means of 0 inter ate treaty or compact divide by alloca ion IOU the water privileges ot of the he Cc colorado lorado river end and its tributa trIbu rier then and then only can the water righta rights f the people oc of utah be safeguarded after five years ut u effort in this direction the seven states interested have ailed failed to consummate con euch such an agreement the danger ot of their continued allure failure to reach an agreement constitutes the peril that 14 I 1 now menacing the future develop ident ment bf eastern utah and ot of hll ull utah if your privileges to the use lot of abee springs and waters and streams that low flow into the colorado river are circumscribed by the law ifal ful demands of at california or arizona the growth and development of this section from that time on will te be fatally handicapped at an earlier moment in my ad dres ie s I 1 pointed out the second requisite for the advancement adv arcement and na prosperity 4 any settled nettled region this you will all recognize as cheap and abundant electric power it Is through this magic agency that factor factories leg will be urt t to reduce your oil ol 01 minerals and metals for counter coi cial purposes ani an to babii cate from your raw products finished articles but should alese power privilege privileges be aref ed from the state of utah by prior appropriation of the water nater required to operate the boulder dam as Is proposed in he swing FwIng johnson bill we should lind our plans effect urty throttled and OUT our future crippled if it this colO colossal col seal power dam teet feet high and reservoir int 26 acre feet of water the greatest grei test ever conceived in fiuman history be erected it can utilize practically the entire flow of at the colorado riv er to maintain its maximum corking capacity inith th this boulder electric punt plant in operation the ve in utah should undertake to erect any dam in the upper reache reaches of the colorado river or ita tributaries tribu that would reduce the water low flow tor for the boulder dim we would be dimmed lately latell restrained I 1 ay iy y fed federal ral tion from proceeding with such an undertaking the plan diana involving cheap and abundant electric power for or the dr do of thi region would mould re ceide a blow ive would hf he even more adv esely effect effected sd in an desire to extend our work vork of 0 reclamation by future filings and the m use ot of additional water during the early day days of 0 our last la of the legislature legle lature when the real ot of this Colora colorado river controversy waa was made alpar en to the |
