Deseret Evening News | 1910-04-19 | Page 10 | Federal Control of Water Power

FEDERAL CONTROL OF WATER VATER PO it VER Gov of Colorado Says Government Has No Title to Waters of Any And 9 Part PartIS PartIS IS AGAINST PENDING BILLS U Secy Piet HIt llo ilI Withdrawal of I hOj nt n III In of 01 O l April If The federal his IMM h n I na title to 10 the th waters water wat rl 01 M c um In any ny part of th the tho cousin V th r Ih they ere are ar navigable or ornon ornon non r flax O i John F r 1 ih nf or today loday before the r of r the th Colorado conservation n In the Ih audience audlene was wasn lVa 1 K It I O n fd former secretary of t II IIi h inter r MI of MII I I hell in t t tl guu oot has ha In Int In Inti ti t tet t I i IM I t it r i IM of ut the th different Kin ett i Mi i i tin continued In tin iOn i n nt r win 10 j h is i i x r proper properly ly Iy i 1 tin tt III u ml I th it m rH n shall hall shalle IM t e il I t to Interfere with alth Ith Inter Interstate Interstate state 1 commerce There I l In our tale state 1000 1080 66 rs e Isn er that can n be generated from the Ih mountain streams It In la cnn nn i thAt the th Ina In lu JU pr det of f r er per par Jf ear ar r tn to I 1 When h we w mul multiply multiply that b h by the th amount of f hor ep er r that in can an l t developed e In Colorado ue we have Inne a value alu In mam luring prod products urte for the th future of r 1 The Th therefore antagonized the Ih various hula no non vending In on irei to tn give gle gh more moe mo nr r k I n to the tb federal government over all water war waterpower powers power In la the event veral tate stale As A to the tle tear fear mostly 11 In Inthe Inthe the east t that tate slate control of the th thew w water sites Ilea would result rc In the ilia monoD monopolisation of water power Gov arid nad Id There Then hi H Infinitely more danger of or n 1 trend towards toward monopoly from tongres control than from slate control I spent several everal ral eez In long and andI I J observed that agents of monopoly ItI were In to attendance In greater numbers number and ami llOn far fr more Influence Inthe In Inthe Inthe the halls hall of or Cong than they the do Inthe In Inthe the legislature Hut Rut there In I no chance china for to brae b and grow In n the water wAler power h Incas of thin state alAI Ul for 1 1 our contI constitution tutus tn o expressly V forbids forbade It In the sec Pee section tion tinn which declares dedra that bat the waters of or the Ih tale state are an for Cor the w ue and ami benefit ne t of or the people of the th state