Book/Printed Material Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered to be printed
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Image 1 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … J CalendaPNo 666 Rept 654 Part 1 69th Congress 1st Session SENATE BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT April 19 calendar day April 24 1926Ordered to be printed Mr Johnson from the Committee on…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 2 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … V l 2 BOULDjER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT 4 The stream measurements taken over a period of 25 years show an average annual discharge of nearly 17000000 acrefeet this after irrigation depletion above…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 3 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 3 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT The citizens in the Imperial Valley and the territory contiguous thereto have long been praying the Congress for relief from the perilous position in which the Colorado…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 4 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 4 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT reclaiming for homes for Americans hundreds of thousands of acres of land now arid and worthless The project contemplates the construction of a large dam and storage…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 5 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 5 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT V Part I Generally of the Project Its Development and Plan PROJECT FINANCIALLY ATTRACTIVE TO GOVERNMENT From a financial aspect this project is an attractive one to…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 6 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 6 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT of a large area of public lands lying around the rim of the present cultivated section in the valley 3 It will conserve flood waters of the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 7 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 7 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT There are theorectical engineering reasons why flood control and storage works should be erected farther up the river and why storage works should be erected farther down…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 8 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 8 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT This thought was also clearly expressed by the late President Harding in the manuscript of an address which he expected to deliver at San Diego He was…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 9 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 9 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT available and particularly because no concrete plan for storage was before it on May 18 1920 passed the socalled Kinkaid Act by which the Secretary of the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 10 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 10 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT zona however has thus far refused to ratify and no assurances have been forthcoming that it will ratify in the immediate future In 1926 a sixState ratification…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 11 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 11 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT the lower river has become a raging torrent This flood usually reaches its peak in May or June after which it ordinarily subsides the floods have been…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 12 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 12 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT of Imperial Valley By 1919 through its immense silt deposit the river had filled the bed of Volcano Lake and Bee River to such an extent that…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 13 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 13 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT PAST FLOODS THREATENING IMPERIAL VALLEY In 1914 the Volcano Lake Levee was breached and 10000 cubic feet of water per second flowed through the levee into the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 14 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 14 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT obtained at an excessive rate of interest The Federal farm loan banks refuse to lend any money in Imperial Valley because of these condi tions The happiness…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 15 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 15 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT development The result is that the United States as proprietor public lands will secure a water supply for these lands under excep tionally favorable conditions There are…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 16 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 16 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT WATER SUPPLY The only source of water for irrigation and domestic use below Boulder Canyon and including a very large area in Arizona and California is the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 17 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 17 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT MEXICAN CONTRACT In order to carry the water into Mexico and deliver it back into the United States for the use of American citizens it was found…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 18 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 18 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT There are more than 800000 acres of land in Mexico susceptible of irrigation by gravity from this system With Mexico constantly extending its use the development in…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 19 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 19 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT can develop much more rapidly in the future than can the lands in the United States Its lands are near the river and irrigation work is inexpensive…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 20 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 20 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT PRESENT DIVERSION The present head works of the Imperial system consists of a deliv ery gate some 750 feet in length in the west bank of the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 21 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 21 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT Part IV Domestic Water DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY The construction of the high dam at Boulder or Black Canyon besides accomplishing the purposes of flood control and reclamation…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 22 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 22 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT It is proposed to organize a public district embracing Los Angeles Pasadena Glendale and other interested communities to carry through this domestic water project This district will…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 23 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 1 23 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT This suggestion was cheerfully accepted by the proponents of the legislation met with the approval of the committee and is expressed in the bill section 4…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 24 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 24 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT Part VI Financial Soundness of Project FINANCIAL SETUP The Secretary of the Interior in his report of January 12 1926 gives his estimate of the financial working…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 25 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 25 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT and his assistants In the study of the water supply the irrigable areas and the control of the river for flood or for power purposes Mr Debbler…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 26 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 26 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT The section also authorizes the works essential to carry out these purposes to wit a A dam at Boulder or Black Canyon in the Colorado River adequate…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 27 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 27 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT a Contracts are limited to 50 years b Provision is made for renewals along the lines provided in the Federal water power act for renewals of licenses…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 28 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … o 28 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT Section 12 approves the Colorado River compact either upon a sevenState or sixState ratification Subdivision b of this section makes any rights of the United States…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 29 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 69th Congress 1st Session Kept 654 Part 2 SENATE BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT April 19 calendar day April 24 1926Ordered to be printed Mr Ashurst from the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 30 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … i 2 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT be necessary higher up the river and unfortunately that is what the bill S 3331 proposes to do The logical and practical way to develop a…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 31 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … J 3 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT A storage dam at Glen Canyon with a diversion dam at Bridge Canyon would achieve precisely what is sought by a dam at Boulder Canyon viz…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 32 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 4 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT be sent to these same cities and towns of southern California by gravity from a diversion dam at Bridge Canyon and thus save and release for other…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 33 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 5 APPENDIXES TO INDIVIDUAL VIEWS OF MR ASHURST ON S 3331 Executive Office Statehouse Phoenix Ariz April llh 1926 Hon Henry F Ashurst Hon Ralph H Cameron and Hon Carl Hayden Washington…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 34 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 6 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT testified that more water was allocated to these States than they can ever use economically or beneficially The representatives of these States have testified also that it…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 35 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 7 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT I want to deny wthout any equivocation the statement of Mr Hoover Arizona has not refused to ratify a compact to carry out the provisions of the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 36 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 8 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT that will be derived from power production within the upper basin Why charge it all to Arizona WATER FOR CALIFORNIA Aside from this phase of Mr Hoovers…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 37 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 9 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT Arizona is not willing to accept Mr Hoover as an unbiased arbitrator nor are we willing to rest our case upon his competency as an engineer I…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 38 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 10 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT alternative of putting in the junk heap millions of dollars worth of property which would be created by the construction of a dam and power plant as…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 39 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 11 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT of power that does not belong to them assert that their reason for so doing is that it is needed to contribute to the growth and prosperity…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
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Image 40 of Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered … 12 BOULDER CANYON RECLAMATION PROJECT FallDavis report which Mr Weymouth also helped to prepare states that the maximum number of acres of land that can be economically and feasibly irrigated in the…
- Contributor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - Johnson, Hiram - Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Date: 1926
About this Item
Title
- Boulder Canyon reclamation project. April 19 (calendar day, April 24), 1926. -- Ordered to be printed
Names
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
- Ashurst, Henry Fountain, 1874-1962
- Johnson, Hiram, 1866-1945
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1926.
Headings
- - Legislative hearings--United States
- - Dams
- - Flood control
- - Hydroelectric power plants
- - Hydroelectric power plants--Brazil
- - Irrigation canals and flumes
- - Irrigation
- - Reclamation of land
- - Reservoirs
- - Water
- - Water-supply
- - Water diversion
- - Water power
- - Witnesses--United States
- - Construction
- - Cost
Genre
- Legislative materials
Notes
- - Pages listed in the Contents Note reflect printed page numbers within successive, separately paginated parts of the publication.
- - Part 2, Minority report, follows p. 28.
- - Appendices to individual views of Mr. Ashurst on S. 3331, p. 5.
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- KF12
- 69-1:S.RP.654
- Y 1.1/2:8525
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- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.law/llserialsetce.08525_00_00-130-0654-0000
- https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo164293
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- 2022694267
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- Ashurst, Henry Fountain
- Johnson, Hiram
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation