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ARIZONA News of the Great South West fpt Oldest Mining Journal West of All Latest Strikes and Mining the Rocky Region* ARIZONA News of the Great South West STATE^MINEROF WICKENBURG. L 27th Year WICKENBURG, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1925. Number 44 THE STATE OF ARIZONA FILES ON BRIDGE CANYON DAM SITE. President Fred T. Colter of the Ari- resources of the Colorado river. zona highline reclamation asociation Our plan is one of continuous co- Monday filed, in behalf of the state of Highline Irrigation Project Now Perfectly Feasi operation Arizona, on the rights to the Bridge with you to save and de- canyon irrigation diversion dam site velop the irrigation and power re- on the upper Colorado river just be- ble Through Senator Colter’s New Location. sources of the river. We now have low the Grand Canyon. For all prac- irrefutable evidence that the Arizona tical purposes, according to the letter highline iribation project is feasible. President Colter wrote to State Land But the data of a comprehensive sur- and Water Commissioner Vernon L. vey is necessary as a basis on which Vaughn with the instrument of filing, to finance the development that the the Bridge canyon irrigation diversion project contemplates. dam site as is the sam 3 the We are now busy with the plans of Spencer Canyon irrigation diversion organizing the owners and lessees of dam site, on the rights of which Colter state lands into irrigation districts. filed for the state of Arizona in 1922. We are educating all of the people of only These two dam sites are six the state, as far as possible, in the miles apart. knowledge that the building of the Engineer E. C. La Rue, chief of the Bridge or Spencer canyon irrigation United States Geological Survey, be- diversion dam, the Glen canyon stor- lieves that the Bridge canyon dam site age reservoir and the Arizona high- is preferable, while Engineer George line canal, will insure the irrigation W. Sturtevant, who made the original of 3,500,000 acres of Arizona land as survey for the Arizona highline re- productive as that of the now famous clamation association, has stated that Salt River Valley, which the Federal the Spencer canyon site is ideal. But government declares to be the most it is President Colter’s idea to secure successful irrigation project in the by means of today's filing the rights to United States. In adition, this pro- both of the sites for the state of Ari- ject can irrigate 1,000,000 acres more zona. in California than any other Califor- The Spencer dam site is at an eleva- nia project yet proposed. tion of 1105 feet and the Bridge can- Pertinent Financing Idea yon site at 1207 feet. Either of these And here is a pertinent thought proposed diversion dams would divert with regard to the financing of the the vtater, according to the plans of proposed Arizona highline canal: the Arizona highline reclamation asso- Site of Bridge Canyon dam, approved by E. C. La Rue, chief of the United States geological survey. A natu a 1 Let us take the commonly accepted Canyon ciation, from the Glen canyon storage spillway is shown at the side of the canyon. This site is only six miles from the Spencer dam site figures that the Salt River irrigation ¦JWJIMi-'- i! "ir r: determined that the Bridge canyon ir- 1 i i»Trir¦ jpp^=tTjT-fr ' : T•Iif iiiTi'nl111 - ~i~~¥iiri V n ' MAPOF rigation dam site was as good or bet- T * ter Spencer canyon dam than the site. , p? COLORADO BASIN I M ' N <* E. C. La Rue, of the United States Geological survey, in a recent report as stated by the L. A. Times that the STORAGE SITES I Bridge Canyon irrigation diversion Z**J" dam—Arizona highline canal project FLOOD CONTROL "T\\ \ —is a better plan for Los Angeles than that of the Mulholland-Boulder / DEVELOPMENT * canyon, contemplates raising POWER . which (V Tt> > I Y’^ the water to a height of 1408 feet by an expensive pumping process. Be- ' C" sides costing several million dollars V "? A o i a year, the pumping plant would be liable to break down at any time. La I Rue shows that dam at Bridge a Canyon, which was first proposed by the Arizona highline reclamation as- sociation—the Spencer canyon dam site and the Bridge canyon dam site which are only six miles apart, being one and the same for all practical j \ \ Angeles | jV_ 1/ purposes—will enable Los to get Colorado river water by gravity. Thus it will be seen that the Bridge Canyon—Arizona highline canal being practical for California certainly is very much more practical for Ari- zona. A careful study of the Arizona highline reclamation project, which contemplates the Glen canyon stor- age reservoir, folowed by a careful study of the report on the Bridge canyon irrigation diversion dam, WGHU*'ej highline shows that the reclamation FLOOD CONTROL If j.H \ ) plan wil most quickly develop Ari- RECLAMATION-POWER _{ zona’s irrigable lands and the 6.000,- \L„ _ - 000 potential electric horsepower of ®T*TE ARIZONA -“SEf—- the Colorado river. The La Rue re- ®ru# ** —»-¦¦ 1 port shows that the highline recla- The -boded tecHon on mop it Ind pwpottd to bo irrigated. mation plan is the best for California, Mnp ofAmcinn IliphliiMCanal, Clan Canon Spanoor Dam Dam. Canon and Want Bind no Im IliaBlda nlAr1 IT. and is therefore more preferable for by Fred T. Colter. Arizona. By this plan it will be pos- sible soonest to obtain complete flood believe in he rapid economic develop- project with completion of the My Dear Mr. Vaughn:—ln behalf of control and the reservoir which is situated just above soonest to get the max- ment of potential Colorado Mormon Flats and Horse Mesa dams, the state of Arizona, I filing the irrigation the river the Grand Canyon at an elevation of am on imum and power develop- irrigation and power resources, and in will cost $22,000,000; waters of the Colorado river as they and that it will HI15 feet, and which will have a ca- ment out of the waters of the Col- advancing the general welfare of our produce 80,000 horsepower by Bridge Canyon electric pacity of 50,000,000 acre feet. will be diverted the orado river. And in no way will this state, to see that our filings are pro- annually, which, is widely heralded, irrigation diversion dam from the Glen Arizona highline reclamation it In L. A. Times report La Rue recom- plan in- tected with all possible diligence to will in ample time pay off the entire mended the use of the Bridge canyon “ requirements the charges. f conform to the of construction irrigation diversion dam—included in k laws pertaining to them. Now it is estimated by competent rhe Arizona higliliue reclamation asso- Bridge It is for your information, Mr. Com- engineers that there are 6,000,000 elec- ciation plan—saying that it would en- 1 5 W F!LE Canyon missioner, that I am filing with this tric horsepower in the Colorado river. able Los Angeles to secure water by ;. § I I letter to you the data obtained thru But let us say, to be ultra conserva- gravity from the Colorado river. The LOWER COLORADO RIVER " |J| ,* f || the efforts of patiiotic citizens who tive, that it is only possible to de- Los Angeles city authorities had pre- have given of their time, money and velop 4,000,000 elecric horsepower in viously planned to secure Colorado ability to secure this valuable data that river, or just 50 times as much river water according to the plans of s t 3 5 Si * $ wihch aids in the establishing of facts as will be developed in the Salt River the Mulholland suivey, which contem- I to protect Arizona’s sovereign rights project. Then let us consider that the i * 5 '-S3! 5 I ,1* I plates the building of a dam in the as a state, and to protect her water highest estimate for the construction Boulder canyon at an elevation of only hsnlisiAjteji filings on the Colorado river origin- of the proposed Arizona highline re- 700 feet, and then pumping the water ally made by myself. clamation canal, is $480,000,000. If we 1408 feet at a cost of several million Because of the misinformation admit that the completed Salt River dollars a year. a, ; broadcast, most of those who have project is economicaly financed at '*i California authorities have become 5? ? S$ ? 4w*f» '¦ been for the Colorado river compact $22,000,000 to produce 80,000 horse- P$ s | ? *2 8? i rri'ooTO : »e? convinced that by using the Bridge | 1-35 *L? 5 -f T Bf#To°. _. § have opposed any appropriation of power, it follows that the highline canyon irrigation diversion dam and money for surveys, investigation project would, manner, * and in a like be the Arizona highline reclamation as- | : l0<? data which would prove that compact economically financed as a power pro- i,-111 ss ft S plans that California can ir- i to be wrong. But notwithstanding, ject sociation Suif of ' !! j ‘-J—r*T | I 1 I C at 50 times that amount or $1,100,- rigate a million acres more than by Co'/orrjo . ,¦1,,¦.1, ,~ 0 5 such investigations, surveys and data 000,000. - 1.. ¦. 1... 1.... 1.. ;io I caJ%L«,a '¦ :io using the Boulder canyon dam, which ~*»,L*r* 3 will eventually establish truth.
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