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Show "It Might Also Be Pertinent to Remark That if the Federal Governments " By GEORGE W. P. HUNT, Governor of Arizona. The state of Arizona has on file with the federal power commission a request for a permit to erect a dam at Bridge Canyon, a site wholly within the state of Arizona. This site has been declared by an engineer of the United States geological survey and other competent engineers as one of the best power sites on the Colorado river. If the permit is granted to Arizona, I do not feel that it will be necessary to ask the federal government govern-ment for any money or any federal bond issue to make power available to anyone who cares to buy it. It might also be pertinent to remark at this point that if the federal government will relinquish to Arizona the public lands and forests in this 6tate, as was done with other states, so that all of the risources within the borders of this state may be available for the development of the state, it will not be necessary, in my judgment, to ask the taxpayers in other states to contribute to the development of the Colorado river or of the state of Arizona. We will be able to undertake the financing of the Colorado river development, and we will not ask permission to invade the rights of any other state in doing so. |