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Show COLORADO RIVER A XT) 1 HARNESS TO FIT IT The European war caused America Amer-ica to look about where returned , soldiers could make a living from) the land. . .... Thus it is seen that the-full : use i ; of the Colorado river is to be as sud- ;.den as it is complete. -J - :!;;--" Secretary of the Interior Lane Is! ready for business; the American people are ready to back the enterprise, enter-prise, and -the old river is ready' to go to work on a much larger, scnle than now.'-" ' " 1 ', As plans mature, . ,the future : looms - big -for suob valleys , as ,the Palo Verde. Yuma Coaehella and Imperial,- The United States can.; nut. the land -and "water , ;togetherr- and the. other, necessary ingredient r-j sunshine, is always present. r ,,.-.--", 01-, the .Colorado river irrigation, nroi'pct the Times of Los-'T Angeles ' says: . , .-ir c. .r When ""Congress" ' took definite, uteris last Tuesday' -to prepare the' v 'or harnpssine the rniehtv Colorado: Col-orado: river a project of immeasur- able ;imnortance W the' Southwest and- to Los AtipbTps ' took nractlcal fnrm. A bill introduced by Congressman Con-gressman Kettner provides fprr a, renliminnrr. examinfrtion of the pro-, feet, fo -the' followed hy comnreh,enr ' Rive' surveys;. 'That the bill will be passed bv both tbe TTouse and Sen-! ateseems certain. . ...... : r.. riNf ' Men ' who are well informed con-cerniner';tbe con-cerniner';tbe "ffemendnus bgnefif s-hat- accrue from the' undertaking: are'cann flrlprit that a survevJ such .fis, is rnotr, nronosed will be overwhelminrtv orm-tj viricing that art adequate: ,,ajipropria.- Hon should be made and the work bt- o-iin : without flplav. Matte.r-of-fact eneineers' who have' studied, the eont 'Mtions have enthused over. the . Cpli: irarto river oroiect as thev never--did "tpf'stiv othr""it' is , iiRtlouhtedlv fom"" t'"' innX 'p undertaken ' .1 nil tlip Hnited States. :.-,:: r r! -11 To compute.'in dpllars all the prof Ha timt win accrue in various wavs1 ' fits'' ' itiinpTido.us nroieat7: wffuld ' p imnossible. but that they will ag-"-nfo rnnnv biiTiHrerls of millionn rOTiVci Mrnnf be doubted trJof nvpri the Panama ' canal.! which "has '01 siicb' an imnortant i factor in no ripvelooment of I.os i; Atip-cIok barbor as a world nort. will contribute contri-bute so lareelv .to the . growth and nrosnerity of this city.. The Colo-' rado river, controlled. . Its witters .mrpart over 1 .000.000 or more ac---ps of rich land v that IsO -powi-ot '"iTirter' cultivation., its mie'ht''stfeSm TPtiera ting h yd ro-elecf ric ''1'' ehergy pnoiieh to turn the wheels of scores of great Industries, will isend Los Ano-pTpq' nonnlation bpyonrT-:tbe rn'tl- l?nri mark and mnltlnly , itr :vpriitb'. Engineers and business men are uarticularly , impressed; ;with the value val-ue .of the undertaking, because1 so, many valuable results will '"be!' ob-' tained. Xhe .Colorado river is at .times turbulent and ...erratic. ' ' tfn-contr,olled, tfn-contr,olled, ,t. is .ever; menacing to, ,the , Iniperial- Valley.,,. .Floods in , the past have, caused .1enormqnsli'lo!sses and the , fear of ot,her losses ' Wfii 'rv ' main as long as the river jis " unharnessed. unhar-nessed. .Storing, the waters4' of "f1-river "f1-river in great .basins.., -the slteso'f which haye already bepni it'e'Mat''"" ly determined by engineers .will .forever remove,, the danger! or" Abort..' At the same time u .the saddjt.lp;n.al. water , made? .available, ,hv meanSjOf, the -storage. , basins , will irrigate ,,000;000 ito 2.000.-000? acres of land along .the Colorado, river watershed,, Much). of 1 this land -is' in : Calif,ornia and some; in 'Arizona r-desertlan.dTrr barren, without water, but' as.prq-: .dnptive as the choicest garden spots in all the; world', when .stimulated by life-giving moisture. ..If the control of the: Colorado meant notbing morc, than, the, addition.. of such i a great area of highly productive, land the nrofltable emnloyment of the large nnmhpr pf men reaujred to till It the,, immense , addition ..to the ,pro4. dnc.tton of tbe: Southwest, its (sale to: waiting markets reached from' !or own port in, our ownicargo. carriers:-it carriers:-it would insure a return to the !n-voctmpnt !n-voctmpnt many fold,, ,,j,; .. Tbp nnssibilitips of' develonlng bvtlro-electric energy are bPyrtnfl jpomp-utton and almost- beyond ' coni-i coni-i nrpbension. It is safe to say that more electric enere-v can. be dprivn-i I from tile Colorado river than is now I being developed from all source j vrnt of -the Pocky mountains. Already- the users- of electricity are m.mv and -they soon will he morp. THn-hPr nrippc for fuel and tbp npr-.pcqitv npr-.pcqitv for conserving it will tpnd to fip (nrrpapfl use of clpctrlcifv for "mMvp power for ' rn llroads pvA " torloa Tt is nrpfHr-tpd -that In ' fn ictont fntnrp nrlvntp rPstdpnnPs 1',-in h.n pnuinnnd rr-HTi ptofricnl in'. ni;npps not onlv for Hrrntlnrr bnt j for npiMnc rpfripprntfn anrl manv I forces of the Colorado so tbpv rn bo utllijpd will only be kppping abreabt with Uie demand, V:hen , 'the electrical energy Ironi the Colo-j rado river is ready to be put to ust i there will be. a market for it. . ... Another powerful argument in, favor fa-vor of immediate beginning of. work on this project was advanced re.; cently by Secretary of the Interior Franklin S.K, Lane ..when he . urged that.. the government spend a. large sum of .money . in development in order, to. ;prevent . season of unemployment unem-ployment that may. follow., the mus-, tering .out, of. : several million; men now in the, army. .. Mr. Lane belie: ves .that, the. United States , will -have, a long season of great prosperity-when, prosperity-when, peace conditions are. complete-, ly restored,, but that in tho transition transi-tion from war-time to peace there i rdaflger, of , hardship on , account, of .unemployment, , :.; . r- .T-..This .T-..This can, be .averted, he .says, hy !-developing . some , of our resources., Mr. Lane expresses the opinion that Us, much as. ,.$1,000,000,000 could profitably and wisely be appropriated appropri-ated at, this time, when two purposes purpos-es .will, be-, served that of enhancing the nation's, ..wealth and providing work for an army of. men when, they most need it. , Mr. Lane's . recommendation recom-mendation has ..been geher'any received rec-eived as wise, and practical. The Colorado -river , project, pronounced by engineers,, as thoroughly feasibly, should, head the. list of such 'development 'develop-ment work. .ijn'i E. C. La Rue.. government engineer engi-neer with thereclamation ..service, ,whq made; a. .ppniprehensive survey, of the Colorado river and has stud-led stud-led '.its, jeserypiE; sites Wd.,: water-flow water-flow estimates -.the,. cost, o4'ppntroll--i.ng,;tne:,riyei?;,,.at,r.,?.5,006,o6o to $5Q,'0 0.0 ,0.0 0. ,q Cpst,. of , ,, distributing systems, .fqr' irrigation .purpose, and .power: plants might , ,;cost two or : three , flmes as. mu,cV but the Investment Invest-ment will.. be "small.. compared with tho returns.. . , - One feature of the. project -that-is cspociuUy. . attractive. ,1s , that .h work-. can;,be-.dpn3 by , units', effectively and economically., ', ,Ona .or, two storage basins, could be built, in a year or "so at accost of a few million dollars with the result ot promptly minimizing mini-mizing tr.o. flood danger and putting na Jconsjderable;areal oi laud-, under . r '.. . : - - ' ' ' water. |