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Show BOULDER DAM. A million or so years ago a stream of water wandered wan-dered off down the southwestern part of a continent. It cut a gully, quite a sizable gully. Then people moved in along its course and commenced to fight over it. Someone Some-one got the idea that Uncle Sam mpight put a dam across it and utilize a lot of power and water. Uncle Sam finally final-ly thought so too, until he tried. Now he has the Colorado Colo-rado river by the tail and can't let go. Paradoxically enough, California, land of gold and development, started the Boulder dam, and it looks like California is going to kill it. , Seven southwestern states, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Colo-rado, New Mdxico, Arizona, Nevada and California are involved in the negotiations to erect a gigantic dam at . Boulder canyon on the Colorado river as a means of: 1, Flood control ; 2, Water supply for Imperial Valley, Los Angeles and the lower basin; 3, Power. Congress passed a bill authorizing the erection of a dam when six of the aforesaid states could agree among themselves as to the disposition of water and power. Utah promptly bowed down to the coast on the theory that increased activity at Boulder dam would mean increased in-creased markets for Utah products. Arizona alone has stood the gaff. She doesn't want California to get the whole Colorado river, power, water and all. It looked like Arizona would still be fighting alone until the recent Reno and Phoenix meetings under the direction of Wm- J. Donovan produced a pretty state , of affairs. As Secretary Wilbur put it "The real fly in the ' ointment was the discrepancy of opinion over water al location between the Imperial Valley and Los Angeles." Secretary Wilbur is himself a Californian. Now Secretary Wilbur says he is going to sell the power from Boulder Dam at his own figure. Incidentally that rate is too low, according to Utah Commissioner W. W. Ray, even to give Utah revenue for Upper Basin development. de-velopment. Nor is Utah included in the power allotment. As far as the common garden - variety citizen can , j see, the Boulder dam is going to be erected out of smoke and oratory. And if it is made of concrete. Utah can expect ex-pect a hand-carved vote of thanks from California that, is all. ' ' |