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Show Friday. May THE OGDEN POST lfi. such as to the welfare of mankind, has ad- building of the dam than will come ton there are certain properties be de- expenditure. Thus the total . vanced to the point where its actual he state of California. The construc-io- ranches and mines that will must priation asked for at ' amounts to $10,660,000. of the dam will insure irrigation stroyed and for which payment execution may be begun. asks each that in areas The made. available be the department for W. P. EPPERSON, Editor There is need of haste in this proj- water made available for this Member Utah State Press Association. ect because any flood of unusual size state where water can be economically $500,000 be Tools iv bring disaster to Imperial valley used.am satisfied that if the plans that purpose. I Published each Friday by .The Ogden Post Printing and Publishing d cause a frightful loss of life and Compaq Finally the department calls attenbeen developed are approved by have in the for settlers 417 Eccles building. property. Safety to the fact that, during the ten tion dam Boulder view the can we congress The Ogden Transfer sad the lower reaches of the river is one benefit years of the investigation of the projproject as of great regional 2340 Grant ivenu. 5? work this company, needed for 'matter October 17, 1927 at the postoffice at of the primary purposes of this enter- to Entered as second-clas- s and the money states ect, all of the southwestern no be will about out It at prise. brought congress ,nikt and quaniy be a signal addition to our has been appropriated by Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. ultimate expense to the communities that it will automobile tools were The fund. money reclamation the of national wealth and property. benefited or to the government. to $385,000. was made by tearing briek?? amounted has statement so in a expended Year .......... Price.. .$2.00 Wilbur, per Subscription Secretary Water will be supplied to the South this asks that the appro- tho wall, which enabled the thuZ.4 afternoon, said that the depart- The department amount to recom- crawl Into the building. PoliTl) em California plain which is greatly ment include an estimates that it will need about priation 365 in need of it, and there will be as much $10,000,000 for the coming year in pense the reclamation fund for this investigating the robSL available' to Nevada and Arizona as order that no further avoidable delays EDITORIAL they can economically use. may be encountered in the execution The government lends it credit for of the Boulder. dam project. This a period of years but will be eom money will be expended for six main pletely reimbursed for the full cost of purposes. the dam through the sale of power Beginning at a point two miles back the signed contracts. . from the river, a highway must be The verdict rendered by the jury in the libel suit of City under ' ' out the plans for the constructed to the top of the cliffs In working Commissioner Ffced E. Williams against the Standard-Examindevelopment of the Boulder dam proj- overlooking the Black canyon dam Secretary Wilbur said there has site, s distance of three miles. This Publishing company, whereby Commissioner Williams was award- ect, been a constant endeavor to make it is over very rought and precipitous ed. damages in. the sum of $3000, proves that it is expensive for an asset of a regional character. Be- ground and it is estimated that the a newspaper td libel a public official. Indirectly, the verdict is cause of topography, he continued, road will cost $300,000. also a victory for the Ogden water system, as the charges com- considerable amount of the stored The townsite which will be the point ! It8 the economical way to visit must necessarily be used in Cal- of residence for the working force plained of by Commissioner Williams were based on the alleged water surout. ifornia. market to The for the laid be must power Topographic contamination of Ogden's municipal water supply. friends or transact business in other cities and pay for the development must of ne- veys are to be made and town planThe jury of the eight "good men and true," by their verdict, cessity must be in California, because only ners called in. Careful attention towns . . . economical both of time and purse. held that the charges made by the newspaper against Commis- in this region is there sufficient or- be given to sanitation. Water must and population to make be pumped from the Colorado river, sioner Williams were not true, and it must necessarily follow that ganization Rates are lower than ever. Here are some typical this Despite these facts the 800 feet below. Settling basins and possible. the statements concerning the Ogden water supply being a typhoid states of Arizona and Nevada will re- filtration systems modeled on those of day rates for calls on which you will talk with any. carrier were also untrue. Following this line of reasoning, the ceive many direct benefits. Indirect such towns of the region as Yuma will one at the called telephone: benefits also will come to- them and be installed. This will cost about proposition that both Commissioner Williams and Ogden City to other neighboring states. Eighteen $100,000 for an initial development. water supply were both libeled is true. to twenty-tw- o cent of the total An administration building and living The amount named in the verdict is insignificant, but the firm power, or per approximately 100,000 quarters for government employes fact that the newspaper is convicted of libel is most significant. horsepower will be available to both will be built there at an estimated and Nevada, at cost during cost of $125,000. Living quarters for By the verdict, not only is the newspaper humiliated, but the Arizona Ogden should these states the mass of the employes must be the office of the state board of health; through its secretary, Doctor desire to useperiod it. Either of them may provided, by the contractors. These T. B. Beatty, is also humiliated. It is indeed deplorable than an exercise also its option within a cer- items in preparation of the townsite San Francisco. $2.55 Denver, Colo.. ...$1.80 of thus amount to $225,000. Ogden newspaper so readily lent itself to Doctor Beatty in carry- tain period of time for one-thiRock Springs Another item calling for immed1.55 1.00 power. The eighteen per cent of Boise, Idaho ing out his campaign of condemnation of Ogdens water supply. the tower is available on a drawback iate attention is that of constructing 2.55 It is regrettable that the newspaper did not join with the chamber asis so that it becomes a responsibil- railways for delivering materials at 1.10 ; Richfield Portland of commerce in investigating the cause of the typhoid epidemic ity of the primary contractors and is the dam site. It is not settled whether i Cedar 1.65 1.45 Helena City. therefore obtainable without any out- this should come from Las Vegas, before launching its campaign against Commissioner Williams. In Nevada, or Chloride, Arisons. No one is better informed as to the source of Ogden's water lay of machinery or other capital ex either when have these case penditure. spurs Rates to any other points may bo secured The newspaper knows In addition, under the bill and un- reached the neighborhood of ths dam supply than is the Standard-Examine- r. by calling the Long Distance operator. engineering that this supply is from a series of artesian wells and mountain der the financial plan, both Arizona Bite a quite spectacular encountered. will This be 25 and Nevada will receive between problem from streams on which thiere are no habitations very different 85 millions of dollars in the fifty will be that of getting a railroad 'down cities which pump their water supply from lakes and streams on and years, after the dam is built, in lieu to the bottom of the canyon 300 feet which are located cities and towns which sewer into the lakes and of taxes, and without any responsi- both below and. above the dam site. bility except to receive. an annual This will envolve special construction streams. over unusually steep grades. check. For calls are handled and blundered To a layman it appears that Doctor Beatty has , Ninety per cent of to put a roadway this work $2,500,000 is needed. . It is planned overstepped his authority as secretary of .the state board of across the dam to which will leac The first element in the actual conlike local calls . . . while you wait on the line. health in this matter and is equally responsible with the news- highways from Kingman, Arizona, to struction of the dam will be .that of TELEPHONE. When you cant go in person Las Vegas and California. This wiU drilling the four diversion tunnels paper so far as the water supply is concerned. From the evidence connect durwater which will the transcontinental through with pass in the case the doctor certainly acted with undue haste in his routes andupInvite numerous tourists to ing construction and to the power condemnation of the water and in attributing to it the source of both Arizona and Nevada. Flans are plant after the project is completed. the typhoid epidemic.. He is also open to criticism for allowing well along for the development of i Power will be required before this monument to include the bor- work is undertaken. This power ;nust An advertisement of himself to be interviewed by the newspaper and the statements national of lake which the dam will either he brought in from the outside ders the in evidence From him.. to the which the newspaper attributed create. This lake will extend prac- or e temporary plant must be erected the case and the verdict of the jury, it apepars that both the tically up to the Hualapai Indian res- at the dam. It is asked that $1,750,-00- 0 THE MOUNTAIN STATES be made available for this purwhich reaches almost to the newspaper and the doctor jumped at conclusions which experts ervation, Grand the Colorado. of This pose. Canyon afterwards held were' mistaken, and who so testified on the witAn initial appropriation is asked mile lake with its opportun eighty ' TELEPHONE & TELEPHONE CO. ness stand. for actual construction work on these water for ity transportation through now Now that the case has been thoroughly investigated; the desert country and partly through tunnels. It is estimated that these of similar character to the tunnels will cost $17,000,000, and that the jury has rendered its verdict in the face of instructions scenery is required to begin this work. Grand but of somewhat less Canyon of the court which were so liberal in the construction to be put In the area that is to bo flooded combined with the fishwill, grandeur, on the law that an unbiased newspaper could find nothing to com- ing which it is hoped can be developet plain of, it is up to the newspaper and Doctor Beatty to publicly in the lake, njake one of the most striking areas under the domain of the apologize to Commissioner Williams and the City of Ogden. . national government for recreation Ogden City owes a heavy debt of gratitude to Commissioner and for scenic beauty. Both- Arizona Fred E. Williams. He has fought this case to a termination so and Nevada will profit greatly from new population and from the imfar as the district court is concerned, and has secured a verdict the mediate building of the dam, but in wide over the opposition of three brilliant lawyers of reputation. directly both states will have an inIn so doing he has incidentally established that Ogdens water creased market for their products due supply was not responsible for the typhoid, and the charge that it to the increased population from the additional water supply to the southwas so responsible is without foundation in fact. ern California plain. In fact, Arizona citizens of henceforth and the OgFrom this time, forever, and Nevada and Utah will on a perden should see to it that no man, newspaper, association or of- centage basis receive greater benefits ficer of department of state, be allowed to question the purity of of an indirect character from the 2! THE OGDEN POST Burglars Take From Storage Telephone Verdict The High Speed. ..Low Cost er Round Trips , Telephone , - 60-ye- From ar to - rd out-of-to- . - ! Da Mies km $5,-000,0-00 - her water supply without being armed with facts which will prove the charges without a shadow of doubt. wv Facts and Figures Blue Light On Boulder Dam Cab & The Secretary of the Interior Furnishes This Interesting Story Concerning the Great Dam; Story Reveals the Magnitude of the Great Project; Arizona, Nevada and Utah Will Share in Benefits . The signed contracts required by the Boulder Dam set for the power to be generated when the dam is completed have arrived in Washington. Secreout tary Wilbur in a statement given law at the department said that the states that, when such contracts are signed, guaranteeing the return with interest of all money to bo expended on the project, the secretary of the interior may ask congress for the funds necessary for its development. Having the contracts now in hand ws will soon ask for an initial These contracts cover a period of years and call for the purchase power at 1.63 mills per kilowatt hour, At that price the power available will in 50 years return all money 60 The states of Arizona and Nevada each have the privilege of purchasing 18 per cent of this power, but are charged for it only as they are able to nse it. Each of these states also will benefit through payments made to them in lieu of taxes which would accrue were this a private undertaking. It is estimated that these will in the beginning amount to $350,000 a year, and, as more power is used, it will increase to $650,000 a year. The agencies with which the present contracts are signed are as follows: The Metropolitan Water dis trict of Southern California, thirty-si- x per cent; the City of Los Angeles, thirteen per cent; the municipalities of : Anaheim, Burbank, Pasadena, Riverside, and San Bernardino, Beverly Hills, Colton, Glendale, Fullerton, Newport and Santa Ana, six per Southern California cent in all;-thEdison company, ths Southern Sierras Fower company, the Los Angeles Gas and Electric corporation, and the San Gas and Electric company, nine per cent in alL . Power allocated but not used and surplus power shall bo accepted and paid for one-ha-lf by the city of Los Angeles and one-ha-lf by the contracting companies. Thus all power generated will return revenue. Thus it appears that, after ten years of effort, by tho friends of this great project, the purpose of which is to capture flood waters in this land of thirst that have heretofore run to waste and to set them to contributing Diego Consolidated Transfer Company Phone 12 Special Car for Funerals and Transfer Service. Phone 12 Make Your Dollar Go Farther X land A Progressive Banking Policy These two sound Ogden bank's, now operating separately, but under one management pending the completion of details for their merger, are prepared to give you a banking service which is not excelled for completeness or soundness in the intermountain country. ; Officered by banking experts who give their entire thought to your banking problems, you can here get practical and helpful service in any banking capacity. We believe in the future of Ogden and its commercial institutions; we are prepared to serve individuals or corporations. 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