A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROTECTION AND DEVELOP-
MENT OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER BASIN

STATEMENTS BY CITIZENS OF ARIZONA

RELATIVE TO THE COLORADO RIVER PROBLEM

AND OPINIONS ON THE LEGAL

QUESTIONS INVOLVED

Printed for the use of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation

M.EA

TC 425
.C6A3
1924a

CONTENTS

Page

Why I favor ratification of the Colorado River compact, by Mulford

Windsor..

1

Comments on the Colorado River compact, by W. S. Norviel..

Report of Colorado River Committee of Arizona State Assembly of the

American Association of Engineers...

13

21

Notes on articles 6 and 9 of the Colorado River compact, by Richard E.

Sloan__.

27

Letter from W. F. McClure, State engineer of California..

28

Letter from R. E. Caldwell, State engineer of Utah..

28

Extracts from speeches, by Carl Hayden..

31

Improvement of the Colorado River, by Thomas Maddock.

53

Statements of candidates for governor of Arizona regarding the Colorado

River compact--

57

Colorado River development, by H. B. Hovland.

59

The Colorado River compact, by Charles H. Rutherford..

73

Definition of Colorado compact, by Fred T. Colter...

87

Comments on engineer's report, by George W. Sturtevant..

99

Reply by Col. William Kelly.

106

Topographic surveys in Arizona..

109

Status of suits to test constitutionality of the Federal water power act,

by O. C. Merrill..

111

Water appropriation law of Arizona..

113

Memoranda on doctrine of appropriations versus doctrine of riparian

rights, by William Spry-

115

Federal ownership of public lands in Arizona, by Stephen B. Davis and

Ottamar Hamele...

119

Extract from speech, by Carl Hayden...

125

Federal power site withdrawals and State lieu selections in Arizona_

129

Glen Canyon Dam site and the Navajo Indian Reservation, by Charles

H. Burke..

133

Problems of the Lower Colorado River, by James H. Gordon.

Salt deposits in Boulder Canyon Reservoir site..

135

145

Proposed tunnel from Marble Canyon and the Little Colorado to the

Verde River, by C. C. Tillotson...

147

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