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Engineer, Mr. C. C. Fisher, favors a dam 250 feet high above bedrock, 

 about 20 feet lower than the Roosevelt dam. Mr. Fisher finds that 

 the irrigation project should have an area of 148,000 acres. In Feb- 

 ruary, 1921, a board of engineers of the United States Reclamation 

 Service review^ed the Fisher report. The board recommends that the 

 dam to be first constructed be 200 feet in height, and that in the next 

 generation, thirty years hence, the height be raised to 250 feet. The 

 board states that such a project is entirely feasible, provided satis- 

 factory arrangements can be made with the Arizona Eastern Railroad, 

 the line of which passes through the reservoir site. 



The San Carlos dam must be constructed. Furthermore, storage 

 must be provided on the Verde River. Additional storage is needed 

 on the Salt River, and with this additional storage will come 24,000 

 additional hydro-electric horsepower at the Horse Mesa dam. It 

 is hoped, too, that a feasible storage project on the Agua Fria can be 

 accomplished, and perhaps the Walnut Grove dam will be rebuilt at 

 some time. Each one of these projects will reduce materially the 

 flood crests of the lower Gila River. 



Final 

 Arizona's program, therefore, should be: — 



1. To encourage all development projects, both public and pri- 

 vate, on the Colorado River. In the case of publicly owned projects, 

 the State must receive a block of free power in lieu of taxes. 



2. To demand that as much power be allotted to this State as 

 can be used by this State. 



3. To demand that the federal project include a diversion dam 

 at Bull's Head Rock at the head of Mohave Valley and one at Gate- 

 head Rock at the head of the Parker Valley. 



4. To demand that provision for river regulation on the Gila 

 River be included in the federal program. 



In the above exposition of the Colorado River problems and pro- 

 posals, I have presented the case from the Arizona viewpoint. Ari- 

 zona's future is to a high degree wrapped up in the development of 

 the Colorado. The highest statesmanship is demanded at this time 

 that the latent wealth of this great natural resource may be wisely 

 and speedily secured and that this Commonwealth may share in its 

 benefits in the largest practicable measure. 



