Show BUILDING OF BOULDER DAM While While this thi Boulder dam darn coi on con con- l- l tro erBY it Is i on jon It Is well for tor Utah b to get both sides Ides side of the Issue itsue Dr Elwood Mend Mead of ot the bureau b ot of reclamation favors immediate ac ac- ac Lion and supports support his bis position with Ii this Ibis statement My long loot and intimate contac tac cOl with the lr farmers of ot Yuma Tuma Yum and an Imperial valle valley and m my lino ledge e j ot pf their heir struggle t to protect their farms and homes from being de do- do troyed d by Colorado do river river floods l lead me roe to express s the he hope that th early action may JUBy be L taken The government has be been bee tI drawn into Inlo this thi great treat enterprise no private company has haa hi offered to assume the th risk and ar Incur the expense ot of building tt darn dam m and related irrigation Irritation work corks orJA an and no private company could could cou 1 adequately deal with Interstate T and International water rights provide domestic water rl rights or i exIsting existing irrigators and construct works for tor the In Irrl Irritation irrigation aion of new ue V areas arlU Tics complex comple factors facto make this a national enterprise se In the truest sense I It It Is fortunate therefore that tt building the th dam creates create gleat CK power Without the r revenue evenue to be obtained from the t ae sale salo of ot power at the tb switchboard r or the th lease leafe of the power priTI l ege this project would entail a burden of ot many millions oC of dol ol- ol Un tars l ars on the taxpayers taxpayer of ot the whole country The Th power 81 ought to be utilized and I the revenue re ought to 10 I help pay for the be works The bill billIs billis I is so 10 drawn n that contracts to fur ful- nish nih the tho needed revenue must be K signed lined before betor construction begins begina It it Is I a unique safe solvent bust bull ness like scheme While the bill a al drawn em- em embodies bodies the Colorado xiv y compact comp and I Is conditioned on ou ratification tl by six states aes ot of o that compact such tuch condition is II i not essential to the tir accomplishment of the pur poses of ot the bill It If these thee states slates do not desire to ratify It Is en en- en entirely n D- D within the power powe of o con con- congress gress eress to provide for the i ton of ot tb upper states stales by sub sub- subjecting this development to the he terms erms pf t the compact Insofar as asit asit It lives gives live to those thoe tho e states tte the th prior pr right to acre feet oC o wa wa- wa water ter tel each year Until the entire Investment ot of othe the he government has been repaid all alt the th revenue whether 1 hether from pow pow- er told sold old at the switchboard of a government plant or from water leases to private works work should ih go fo to the federal government Alt Aft Alter er that has ha been done then the government government may properly consider conti who should be the beneficiaries bene ot of profit from the th operation of these works buton but on attempt lo to allo- allo allocate a cate rate now any part of the revenue from Irrigation irritation sale ule of cf lor or Irom domestic purposes or from poi power to 10 anyone anyon outside the th government will will I J fear malie make iI e financing the enterprise Impossible |