Show let the truth of colorado river dam bill be known by L A there Is an hysteria in utah that the swing johnson doulder boulder dam bla bli in congress should be beaten the tact fact la is for the protection and pros prosperity of utah and uintah basin it should become a bmw the sentiment against this dam is worked up by the power trust which is a gigantic combine for the purpose durpos e of preventing ie t ae government putting ja in that dam tor for tear fear that the power and light rates will be cut down to where they ought to be instead of paying enormous profits to the trust we should leave electric lights Ilg hits power and fuel to heat our homes and do our cooking and other work for or much less per month than it costs per month by using coal and wood I 1 I 1 our friend J P may wants to know k now why california should get such a huge sum of money for development and not utah california is putting that money up herself the plant will be bonded and ithe secretary of the treasury will sell the bondson bonds on the market and the holders and investors will be california people and the secretary of the interior is prohibited from doing a tap on the boulder dam ua ira til california has signed up contracts fur power and water to pay for the whole works in a specified time and the income idill be 1 lu u a year which will so soon 01 I 1 pay the private holders of bonds that is Cali fornias business it if utah wants to develop the same way let bitah boyi bonds bodas tor for a dam at flaming gorge but utah people cant do it because you cant sell bonds without a market and utah has no market her market is in the future mr may speaks of development on the columbia presumably on the same basis and calls it a grab well if vie tae people at portland and the big eldies on puget sound want to make a huge Irrig irrigation and electric continued on page eight LET THE TRUTH OF COLORADO RIVER DAM BILL BE KNOWN continued fromi ima page one plant in the columbia and want to buy bur the bonds and pay the bills themselves as california is lining to do all right and good what whai right has utah to stand in the tae way mr air may also speaks of the st at Lamm itice pio proposed posed ikrath it would be well tor for mr air may to pot himself a little the ginat state stale of tw new york with the wealth or of a nation that water power and al smith nougat the power trust and compelled it to ito withdraw from that project with the sympathy and aid of that great republican charles E II that expense will not come out oat of the united states treasury but out of t tag he pockets of 0 private investors NOW about waiter there Is no way proposed tor for utah to obtain its water rights except tor for the pact to be ratified by a part or all of the colorado river states in low water the river is aheady already over appropriated it if the swing johnson bill becomes a law california will waive its priorities priori tiei and then wt we will have abundance of water for every project in the tha basin delph delpa carpenter one ol of the signers of the river pact and an engineer standing as aa high as t hoover says the upper babin states have a under the compact to use all ol of the water in the rivet in the kuppr states slates and lie he 1 it right you cant dani dam up these big rivers mid and stop the flow from being acre fecat at lee ferry but it if the swing johnson bill is defeated then ithe riv river r has no reservoir and our water is now subject to the call of the la tors in california the chief opponents ot of this dani dam is the power trust they want to own this riv er and a lot of people are boosting them along to the detriment ol of the people ot of this state and of ithe itha country at large it is remarkable that our friend J P may alay will parade a lot of points that lie he calls weak points that aie really po points ints ot great importance I 1 |