expenditure of very large amounts of money. To ask the present irrigated lands to abandon the present system found efficient and accept in exchange the untried experiment of a canal built through shifting sand in itself would be unjust but to further propose that these lands bear any portion of the expense of this costly experiment is earnestly protested against by the membership of this club, composed as it is of those land owners, who would be compelled to pay the greatest part of any expense charged up to the Imperial irrigation district. Finally, the Colorado River Control Club opposes the canal on the grounds that it is delaying legislation necessary to Colorado River development. We believe that there is urgent need for action without unnecessary delay, and that the various States and communities interested can more quickly be brought into accord by a program of river development considering only paramount issues and freed from all local and controversial proposals. We attach hereto other papers more fully expressing the club's attitude which you may be interested to read. In submitting our views for your consideration we ask you to keep in mind that the sole interests of our members are in the American portion of Imperial Valley, and that they are actuated only by desire to aid in accomplishing that which is for the valley's greatest good. Respectfully submitted. COLORADO RIVER CONTROL CLUB, The CHAIRMAN. Also there may be inserted the following resolution adopted by the Needles Chamber of Commerce: Whereas the forthcoming session of Congress will in all probability give serious thought and consideration to the urgent demands of the West for the early development of the irrigation and power possibilities of the Colorado River; and Whereas there exists a divergence of opinion between the people of the various States bordering the Colorado River in its lower basin as to their rights to the water and power to be developed and again as to the location of the proposed dam; and Whereas these differences may not be amicably adjusted for a considerable period of time thus holding up indefinitely the relief from an ever-present danger of a ravaging flood that each spring threatens inestimable damage and from which the sections thus endangered are entitled to immediate relief: it is therefore Resolved by the Needles Chamber of Commerce representing the interests of the people of the second largest city on the Colorado River in the Southwest, That it is the consensus of opinion in this locality, which has ever been menaced by the uncontrolled flood waters of this river and which have been fought back by local interests at enormous expense, that a flood-control dam is of paramount importance and should be constructed in the earliest possible time; and it is further Resolved, That this organization go on record as favoring the immediate construction of a flood-control dam at either Topock or the Boulder Canyon dam sites and that this resolution be transmitted to the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and a copy spread upon the minute books of this chamber. NEEDLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, E. O. UNDERHILL, President. W. W. HAYS, Secretary. (Whereupon, at 6 o'clock p. m., the committee adjourned to meet at 8.30 o'clock p. m., to-morrow, October 31, 1925, at the Southern Pacific Hotel, Yuma, Ariz.) х COLORADO RIVER BASIN HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION UNITED STATES SENATE SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 320 (68th Congress, 2d Session) DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON IRRIGATION AND YUMA AND PHOENIX, ARIZ. OCTOBER 31 AND NOVEMBER 2, 1925 PART 3 Printed for the use of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation |