Show DAM PROJECT ENDS FOR PRESENT Government Stops Work on Southern California Scheme Causing Protests FAVORS FEDERAL CONTROL CONTRO Development t Company's ii'S s Irrigation I Plan Plait May Ia Be He Taken O cr I by Government Gay Gov 0 Yuma Inch t Yuma a n Full Failure tire Work ori on tho Roosevelt darn dam am at Yuma rum a has been stOpped slopped b by tho the government 0 gov gov- till tl the break brcak In the time Colorado river Is repaired an and tho tue stream 1 re restored rc- rc c- c stored permanently to its natural channel The reclamation officers in iii charge e of the work worl near nel Yuma report that the whole scheme will wil have havo to lo tobe lobe tobe be abandoned If Ir the Colorado Is Is not turned back to Its Is channel The suspension lon of or construction work worl is believed here to lo be le tho the cause of the thc protest that Is la coming cominS to V Washington Wash ash ashington ashIn ash ash- In ington ton from rein farmers In lu the Yuma district who ho assert that the they will whit wi be ruined If IC the irrigation project on 01 01 which they based their in e Investments is abandoned DIrector alcott pointed out the necessity for tor the Iho go government to suspend suspend suspend sus sus- pend operations at the Roosevelt dam darn He lie le Indicated b by drawings re recent recently re- re cent made by engineers that unless tho the water vater of the Colorado is confined to its is former channel Hoods floods will wi back backup up LII to lo tho ho dam damit am and under undermine mine It I und and cause ouse Its is com complete pIe to destruction Up t to date the tue government has expended over o er a a. n million dollars In the w work rl and it is now considered unwise to proceed with wilh wih the completion of f the thO project If It the tho whole scheme Is liable lable to lo destruction Arc Are Discouraging in Reports from flom engineers on ott 01 the tite ground are aie d discouraging raging but lut Wash Washington ashIngton ash ington officials aro are extremely sanguine that alt all al will wJ be he well wel with wih the s settlers I of or Imperial Valley and the tho Ym Yuma a dis die triet President Roosevelt Roosevel will wi send to congress soon oon a message In which he hc will wi i that the time HarrIman Interests in interests In- In in the matter of the Irrigation of the desert sert lands hands of the Imperial ale valley be le extinguished The appropriation to be asked cd by the chief executive exe will wi not be lc in any way a n donation donation donaton do do- nation naton to lo tho the existing corporate In IntereSts Interests In- In to lo assist them In doing their duty duly lut by the settlers and clo closing Ilg the Iho break brcak but AMU vIli be for lor lIC tue purpose purpose pur put pose 1050 of taking over all al the the properties and rights of the California Development Development Develop Develop- ment company 4 This phase of oC the light fight for the life of or the tho hI valley valey has lias d developed since th the administration contest with ith Jh HarrIman began and amI owes its Is present force to the the- announcement that the California Development coman company Is Is' Isa a Southern Pacific concern It I Is known here that thai when Hariman said sil that he did not notown notown own ort the Cal California Cornia company corn com pa pany pamy he Ito told the truth ch uh t WH s h f m. m This gives to the thc thern Pacific company compan the mana management c n nt of of- the tho affairs of or the concern while it 1 evades all 1 responsibility for Its Is acts It I may be le said raid that If It Harriman finds It I impossible to lo con consent to the terms of the Ike government then JC if will tm be be a n ease case cc of hands oil oft of for the a administration and the Southern Pacific must wor work workout I out its is own salvation and that of or the settlers of tho the vale valley 1 Prepares ics Bill lot for 10 Coni Control rol Senator Flint is now preparing preparing- a abill 1 bill 1 appropriating money for the control control control con con- of time the waters of or the Colorado but lut all al of its Is provisions have not been determined determined de dc- de- de and settled selled The he California Development compan company com corn pan pany has challenged the propriety of the farmers petitioning for government government govern govern- ment meat control of their water supply In fn Inso fitso so much as the time pioneering of or the vat val ley Icy was done one b by private capital the reclamation of the desert was the work wOlli of or men who gave ga to It If time and talents for which adequate compensation salon seems Impossible Time The present state of development dc in Imperial vall val val- l Icy ley y Is the work vork of some six years r rs Before Before Be- Be fore foie time the California Development com corn compan company pany pan through the time late Mr Mi 11 r Hele-r began began be be- gan Its Is vast project the desert desert offered d homes only to wandering Indians Indians' the t prospectors and tho the serpents the sole economic use of the lands being for a acry avery very cry short time in lii the spring when the Ule cattle catle from flom tho ho Surrounding mountains were driven un down don donto to fc feed fed d dupon upon the pepper grass which had I re responded responded re- re to the warm rains of the winter w I a ter Th The California Dev Dev- Development com corn company company pany began its Is labors labO by t filing In upon P S I the he entire available a waters of or the Colorado under the tho laws of or California to which at this time it has hasa a legal right The rime waters so SQ galiled are ample for making a gum garden of the en ep- ep tire thc valc valley an area of or some net acres and by extensions extension another milIon mil mil- milon mi- mi lion Ion ma bo hO added lon may lo to this principal principal- It ity Tho Time work of bringing the water upon the time lands was of much magni tide tude Between the tho point finally selected se se- as available for a and I the Ie 1 lands to be le reclaimed lies les a anc or inns to tunnel which would have meant tho the expenditure of oC millions milons perhaps as man many us aim al four or live So It was that the engineers tie of pr the com corn pany- pany jan d decided lo to ll construct a canal down lo to n a Junction with wih the the old bed of tho the Alamo river and to use o that bed Co for l' l the greater portion t of the course of the time supply system Mexico o Grants Grams Concussion This decision slon made ce necessary l' l a concession con con- once on- on ce cession slon from torn the government go of co O and one ono was wah wal secured following which work vork was pro prosecuted with more moro or lets less les accuracy and anti along lines wih alon more moro or less ics perfect some of Ui Uto en en- however being being out of of class clas with wiLl moro mom modern Irrigation development develop develop- ment ment But Dut Iho ho water was secured brought UP upon I tho the land lan and then Bold sold through brought the medium of the mutual companies to such settlers soller- soller as us a came caine upon tho the desert and made udo homes home s at the y vei-y ery lo Jovest price leo 1 to Ino to Iri- Iri Iril- Iril gaton exper 50 cents per l' l act acre foot oot Scot Scores of or miles of or ditches ch checker bOad board tho the broad valley large larce and modern zi nut and ard distributing works work have been een put pUl down and until time the break bleak In the banks of oC the Colo Cob rude rado In 1 1904 th though there thel havo have been Jee shortages an and a accidents through fall fail ure of experimental workings fai- fai dam dam- damages ages age growing out of such failures of oC water rater In Jn remote places the development develop develop- ment mont of the val valley went on ou with witha a de de- de gree groc of regularity le- le With rights with wih the time pioneer work dono nd tho the time at baud haud through 10 revenues lUCS there might t fairly be bo expected a season ot ot or uninterrupted prosperity the proposals l and lion tion ton for tOJ a change chango of or ownership u and system havo have caused a a deal eal or of feeling I t In the tue California Development people It Jt was ivas stated recently that thai tho the unrest caused by agitation and the unlucky bi caking breaking of oC time the batik bank of the lie river had bath hal roush about lip cancelling of or negotiations no- no for or something like Jw OOOO worth o of ot town property Hi 11 the tIme valo valley That tho the United States government will wH act so as to in iii effect conn confiscate tho time works of the time corporation is of sim cout-sim Impossible ille but hut It is hul hold held by ly tho the men of th lit company that au any setting eUing of or an arbitrary pi Ic Ice tot for the work ork now non existing would constitute such confiscation On time the side of ot time the farmers armors It is contended con con- COl- COl tended that government go ownership wo would hl be bc a f sS' sS synonym for stability and amid progress as a tho time company has ha consistently consistently con con- failed Caled to supply water vater llan Many of or the most pronounced reclamation service vice men muon contend that the thc greatest value in the time Widely h ly petition petton for or governmental intervention enton will wl lie llo 10 In Inthe II the thc fad fact Cae that Jt it J places over the heads of the tho California D company compa compa- 1 ny my a big stick which will full fall If It there I Is any allure on orm Lime Iho part pal of ot the com com- pal to live Jve up p to o over every promise contract that it makes with the people of ale valley alley 10 arc alc probably n 0 out of the tho 1200 actual small farmers who have I signed h 1 cd the petition pelton for lor or government IO o ner ownership and arid at l it once on e tho time petition pelton will whIt wJ be le placed place on file mo at Washington to o bo be followed as a soon on a as practical b by ho the Incorporation papers for rOl the thea Wa Wa- a ator tar ter Users Users' a association of ot tho time valley time the plans of tho ho Pre President vaJo be acceptable to congress tho the water corporation om would b bo enabled to got get down don to t very em soon ROOI with wih a u ready made t-mado t plant plantS for or its is work |