Show Y BE lONG 11 IM 1 WORK Of OL REGION R Of O BOULDER DAM BEGINS Will Tin Be Dead Letter Leiter If If Arizona Does Not State Seven Compact On June 21 1929 Salt Lake Tribune I t Swing-Johnson Swing Boulder Dam having been successfully mand man- man ed d through the senate and house houses s proponents has been signed by dent ent Coolidge As a result Las Lass s Nev is en fete and there is rejoicing In California Such rations bons however may be pree pre- pre re e for the law cannot become efe ef- ef ve e until the Colorado river cornIs cornIs comis corn corn- Is fully j ratified The Tribune at t Washington explains situation con concisely isely as follows Arizona before June 21 next ratify the state seven-state compact California in the meantime un un- ratifies the law will become operative after resident by proclamation has an- an ced full ratification Or after 21 21 if it Utah shall shaU ratify the six- six compact and California ratify the law will become tine tive ut until one of these conditions is the law is a dead letter and not liar can be spent not a stroke of ot done under Its terms Further- Further no construction can be under- under tin 1 in ln any event until the secretary e interior shall have made confor confor confor con- con for the sale of power from der dam on terms adequate in opinion to repay the cost of the within fifty years hIIe it may be true that friends he e measure were not surprised by prompt signing of the bill by dent Ident Coolidge his hasty approval approval Ie e as a shock to those who have latently opposed such legislation e it was first proposed and they I know now accusing him of going direct direct- to the principles he laid rn m n in his message to congress less lessa p a three weeks ago in which mesI meshe meshe mes- mes I he specifically declared against ting the government Into power mess ness Iness f is being pointed out out that while bill bUl contains alternative plans by bych bych ch eh the power privilege may be beed ed led to private interests the form it was finally agreed to leaser leas leas- er of water for power purposes Is the not the first of the alternative 1 w ss and furthermore the law in paragraph declares the purpose of act to be controlling of floods etc d 4 for the generation of electrical riY gy as a means of making the proa prof pro- pro I f a supporting self and financially ent undertaking a direct declara declara- of purpose to put the government he the power business he tie Tribune is unable to chart the theire theIre theire ire course of either Utah or Arti Arta Art Art- a i in the matter Governor Dern Dem isI is isto I to believe that the bill bUl has been ly improved by the senate amend- amend its and that the Interests of Utah better pi protected elected than In the I draft of the measure but is ined In In- Ined ed ed- to withhold further comment U I he receives a copy of the bill bUl in final form which he has ordered n i Washington he one thing apparently certain Is t t. construction work on the dam not begin for a long time to come n 1 i if U Arizona should be In getti getting g Its case Into the federal its ts for adjudication Theres iy y a slip flip twixt the cup and the |