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Show f ; r r , Payments should be matfs tiy Check", Money Order or 'ffeglstered Letter, Published Every Saturday WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEFSKI, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Vi Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Onion. $4.50 per year. payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as seoond-clao- s matter, Juno 21, 1019, at the postoffice of March S, 1870. City, Utah, under the Act BY GOODWINS: i . Phono Wasatch 5409 Every literate mind among us should now know that the unparalleled progress and prosperity of America has been produced, first, by our genius for invention, and second, by management applied to vast economic undertakings, and all supported 811-12-- 13 Ness Bldg. it Salt Lax Salt Lake City, Utah . , power going into California, our coal exports to the coast would immediately be cut off, our industry crippled, most of the mines shut down, with just enough work going on to supply our local demand. ;The proposed dam will be about 700 feet high, more than twice as high as any constructed; dam in the world, and over six times as high as the Cutler dam of the Utah Power and Light company on the Bear river. The engineering problems to be solved are such that no one can estimate the cost. After the dam has been built, it has already been estimated that it would fill up in two or three years with silt and the people would then have left nothing but a waterfall backed up with a solid river bed level . with the top of the dam. The waterfall could be used for electric power all right, but the irrigation water would be just where it is today; there would be no place to back it up or store it. The best engineers in the world have already condemned the project as not feasible, yet even they may be mistaken, but the facts as they have been presented are molded from meagre i - . by good government. Keeping the above thought uppermost in mind, the people may well and seriously question the feasibility of the Boulder damproject under government promotion and ownership and which today has become one of the largest political footballs in the history of our nation, and the proposed undertaking is surrounded with so many hazards that our greatest engineers predict disaster ahead if the dam is constructed under the present it ever continue to provide what is prescribed for plans, nor caii ' ' it to do.' In the first place, the most vicious thing about it is that it puts the government squarely into business. In the next place, the project should be properly called The Los Angeles Water and Power Bill. If it is the intention and purpose of our government to construct this massive structure for the special benefit of Southern information.; In fact it will cost the people $20,000,000 as a first outlay to ., California, principally Los Angeles, will not other cities go to the government and demand similar privileges, even going' to the' ex- - pay for investigation to see whether this dam can be built in the tent of demanding the government of building a home for some cited locality as planned. After such investigation the engineers favorite son? may report back that the dam is impossible. In the discussion of this huge project, it has been stated that Congressman E. O. Leatherwood stopped the building of the the building of the dam is for the purpose of storing irrigation dam when it looked absolutely certain. One of his main points water for the Imperial Valley, furnishing domestic water supply was brought out when he showed by engineers computation that for Los Angeles, and the development of electric power. Also the proposal to raise water 1,500 feet to get it over the moun- to protect the people in Imperial Valley from anticipated flood tains at the small cost of 3 mills a kilowatt hour for the energy waters. Those people have had one flood, but that was not due to required would cost over $24,000,000 a year for the maximum the flood waters of the Colorado river, and competent engineers supply asked by Los Angeles. Yet it has been shown that Los have estimated that those people can be properly and safely pro- Angeles has a supply of water for nearly 4,500,000 without havmoted from floods for less than $10,000,000, while the first cost of ing to touch the Colorado river water, or enough water for about the Boulder dam would be $125,000,000, .which cost under politi- four times the present population; hence our .statement in the cal1 jurisdiction would jump to over $300,000,000, according to early part of this article that Los Angeles might never need the our best authorities and cited from past experiences of govern- water. Leatherwood also showed that there was great danger of mental projects which have invariably doubled and trebled over several of the states losing their inherent rights to the waters of the first engineering estimates. Overshadowing all other demands, we have Los Angeles the Colorado, and ho absolutely stood for states rights.- It was n bill to pieces and pretext that it must have this water for her Leatherwood who picked the clamoring under-thfuture water supply. However, the Utah Fact Finding Commis- showed it up as providing for restricted rights except in the case : sion during its investigation of the proposed Boulder dam found of California. Governor Dorn has spent several weeks out of the state in that Los Angeles did not need this water and might never need it. Then there is. the general opinion in all eastern states that meetings and pow wows with other governors directly inter- -, there are so many Qe government should not pay the expense of supplying any one ested rin the Boulder dam. It appears that like the League of Nabe to matters considered, become would yet the and with important government water, immediately city involved in a serious proposition which would ultimately !rc&ult tions pow wows there is so little done. Wo are fully aware that the large sum of money, which must be advanced to conin disaster! As to supplying power purposes in Southern' California, struct this dam is a big political plum,; and the Utah must remember that the coal mining industry is one .of our . of the seven states involved in this proposed transaction are . and they are willing to go the limit of it best for the electrical immense with this and tax industries, sparring paying largest . ! : ! . 9 . . . r -- - Swing-Johnso- r ardent-politician- ; s |