anaheim-gazette 1923-06-07

UTILIZING WATER OF COLORADO RIVER THREE ALTERNATIVE PLANS OF FERED TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA George H. Maxwell, Executive Director National Irrigation Association, Outlines His Scheme for Irrigating the Great Southwest—Proposes a California-Arizona High Line Canal —Would Carry Water to All Points on Southern Coast. Editor G. C. Referring again to the matter bringing 7000 second feet of water through the San Gorgonio tunnel in a continuous flow to southern California, there is one aspect of the matter that I would like to summarize and emphasize as the particular point requiring immediate action. The movement in Arizona for the construction of the Glen canyon reservoir and the Arizona high line canal to provide for the utilization in Arizona of half the flow of the Colorado river from the Glen canyon reservoir, the other half to go to California, has gained such strength that it must be regarded as a project to be reckoned with, just as much as the "Columbia basin project" in the state of Washington, or "The Marshall Plan" in California. The Glen canyon-Arizona high line project would serve all purposes for Arizona if the water were taken from the Colorado river into the Arizona Chuckwalla valley, would be much shorter than the distance necessary to carry the water down the Colorado river to the all-American canal and then across the sand hills and back to the head of the Coachella valley. Alternative Plan No. 3 The vastly more important plan and third alternative for the consideration of California is the proposed Colorado river-California high line canal, from a point of junction on the Arizona high line canal opposite the Needles thence around to the intake of the San Gorgonio Pass tunnel, which should be called the San Jacinto tunnel. At the intake of that tunnel the elevation would have to be not less than 1442 feet. Under this plan 7000 second feet would be taken through the San Jacinto tunnel into southern California and 4000 second feet would be dropped 1400 feet at or near Indio for power and then used to irrigate the Coachella valley and lands already irrigated in the Imperial valley. Under this third alternative the Chuckwalla valley and the new lands in the Imperial valley would be left unreclaimed. The water would be taken into southern California for irrigation and power development in that country between the mountains and the ocean instead of being used in the desert country adjoining the Colorado river. Now it seems to me that it is "up to southern California" to do two things: 1. Prevent the issuance of any permits anywhere below Glen canyon on the Colorado river for power development to anyone at any place until the question of the practicability of the canal from the Needles to the San Jacinto tunnel has been definitely estimated. 2. To raise the money without any delay, by private subscriptions, as we did in Arizona last year, to have an immediate reconnaissance made with an estimate of cost of the proposed California high line canal from the Needles to the San Gorgonio pass and material and spike would undertake does not mean should try the economy of Europe. That millions than America other things worth than money. On pathy, another is moral these could help ONLY THE D Geological exp there is a recoverable troleum in the tilt oil fields in the south 790,000,000 barrels estimate that at production in six measures will have That would be a california, but the less impression had always been their prognosticating producing fields present time are geologists, ten years pronounced worthy territory. Most like experts in many know where they discovered. In Kern county thinking person measures are covered hills around ermine sides of trary, it may be day is not far distancing territory covered running developing a weak already tremendous And there are no that more than now is obtaining are far away from Who will pretend shall not one day The Glen canyon-Arizona high line project would serve all purposes for Arizona if the water were taken from the Colorado river into the Arizona high line canal at the intake of the canal on a level of 1400 feet. The only modification of this plan that would be imperatively necessary to adopt it to the California high line and the San Jacinto tunnel projects would be that the level of the intake from the Colorado river into the Arizona high line canal would have to be raised 100 feet, possibly a little more than that, so that the level of the Arizona high line canal would be not less than 1500 feet opposite the Needles—the rock pinnacles—not the town of Needles. This would allow for a fall of 58 feet between the point where the California high line canal would leave the Arizona high line canal and the poli-where the water would enter the San Gorgonio tunnel at an elevation of 1442 feet. If more than 58 feet fall should prove necessary, the level at the Needles could be raised to a level enough higher than 1500 feet to meet this necessity. You can get the exact location of this point where the canal would enter the tunnel under the San Gorgonio Pass, by referring to the contour map of the United States geological survey designated as the San Jacinto quadrangle. You will find the bench mark indicated on that quadrangle at 1442 feet about half way between Whitewater and Cabezon, on the Southern Pacific railroad. The plan for the Arizona high line canal, from the beginning, has contemplated an equal division of the water coming from the Glen canyon reservoir between Arizona and California. Alternative Plan No. 1 The first plan we made contemplated taking the water out on the 1330 foot level and dropping California's half of the water 780 feet at the Williams river, where it would develop 808,400 horse-power, and carrying it to Ehrenburg in a power canal, where it would drop 220 feet and develop 226,000 more horse-power, making a total of more than a million horse-power for the Colorado river for power development to anyone at any place until the question of the practicability of the canal from the Needles to the San Jacinto tunnel has been definitely estimated. 2. To raise the money without any delay, by private subscriptions, as we did in Arizona last year, to have an immediate reconnaissance made with an estimate of cost of the proposed California high line canal from the Needles to the San Gorgonio pass and including the San Jacinto tunnel. With a little active interest in California this amount could be raised and sur- made within the next sixty days. There is only one point where the practicability of the proposed route requires surveying on the ground to determine the necessary facts. That is the point where there would have to be a crossing either with a fill, an aqueduct, an inverted siphon or a pressure tunnel across the low valley through which the railroad runs from Milligan to Kilbeck on the Santa Fe railroad. It seems to me this proposed California-Arizona high line canal is of such inestimable and absolutely over-shadowing importance to southern California that you cannot afford to leave undone anything necessary to establish its practicability before any action is taken by the federal power commission. That would destroy the project in advance by creating a vested power right to drop the water in the river at any point to so low a level that it could not be raised again to the necessary height for the Arizona-California high line canal. A power permit at Boulfer canyon or at Diamond creek would forever destroy the practicability of this proposed California high line canal and tunnel. You surely cannot afford to let this great possibility pass from southern California without first thoroughly investigating it. Yours very truly, GEORGE H. MAXWELL. Executive Director, National Reclamation Association. Phoenix, Arizona, May 4. AMERICAN ALOOFNESS The conviction of President Harding that the United States cannot afford to stand aloof in its attitude toward other nations is one shared by the majority of the American people, but in this, as in all things, there should be moderation. It is also the belief of many that Mr. Harding could We have in these 75 species of eucalyptus and Flora somewhat sparser states. In California established chile shelter belts and these species are Alternative Plan No. 1 The first plan we made contemplated taking the water out on the 1330 foot level and dropping California's half of the water 780 feet at the Williams river, where it would develop 808-400 horse-power, and carrying it to Ehrenburg in a power canal, where it would drop 220 feet and develop 226,000 more horse-power, making a total of more than a million horse-power for Los Angeles and southern California. This method of division would fit perfectly into the plan on the Colorado river embodied in bulletin No. 4, water resources of California, issued by the state of California, department of public works, division of engineering and irrigation. The map between pages 38 and 39 of that bulletin shows the plan for utilizing the Colorado river in California to be a pumping system for the Chuckwalla valley, leaving the rest of the water to run down the river to the Laguna dam and thence into the all-American canal to the Imperial valley, from whence the canal would skirt the sand hills to the upper end of the Coachella valley and swing around that valley back to the Salton sea on the west side of the valley. Alternative Plan No. 2 This second alternative plan contemplates taking across the Colorado river just above the Williams river, with an inverted siphon, only enough water to irrigate the Chuckwalla and Coachella valleys, with a small extension canal from the Chuckwalla valley to and around the Coachella valley. This second plan would save a good deal of water that would be wasted under the first plan, because the distance from the Williams river to Indio by the proposed route via the AMERICAN ALOOFNESS The conviction of President Harding that the United States cannot afford to stand aloof in its attitude toward other nations is one shared by the majority of the American people, but in this, as in all things, there should be moderation. It is also the belief of many that Mr. Harding could be trusted to be moderate in the expression of a view as to how far America ought to go in forming permanent contacts with other countries. His political foes may seize upon this newest thought from the chief executive and attempt to make capital of it, but what Mr. Harding already has said about the league of nations ought to be sufficient on that score. The United States has held somewhat aloof from Europe for the past five years just because the old world showed little or no disposition to forget the war and go to work. Americans went back to their offices, benches, plows and counting houses; the Europeans continued to wear uniforms of one kind or another and to carry swagger sticks. The American way, as is proved by present world economic conditions and industrial standards, must have been better. At any rate, reconstruction here has been far more rapid than that of the countries of the old world. At this time, however, there are indications that the old world would like to forget war for a while and to remember peace. It has been said all along by government officials that when the time came for the United States to help Europe, which was helping itself in a This is a Time Sewer Pipe Let other cities experiment with sewer in the construction of their sewers, a system be sure that material is used might endure. Today every dollar of the tax-payers' money should power; every purchase should accomplish the utmost should last for generations, therefore it is unwise to invest in new materials and spiritual way. America would undertake nothing less. This does not mean that America ever should try the economic regeneration of Europe. That would take more billions than America has, but there are other things worth as much as or more than money. One of these is sympathy, another is understanding, and another is moral encouragement. And these could help Europe mightily. ONLY THE DRILL CAN TELL Geological experts estimate that there is a recoverable quantity of petroleum in the thirty-nine producing oil fields in the state amounting to 3,790,000,000 barrels, and they likewise estimate that at the present rate of production in sixteen years the oil measures will have been exhausted. That would be a serious thing for California, but the statement will make less impression than if the geologists had always been correct heretofore in their prognostications. The greatest producing fields in the state at the present time are in localities that the geologists, ten years ago, would have pronounced worthless as oil-producing territory. Most of these gentry are like experts in many other fields. They know where the oil is after the oil is discovered. In Kern county, for instance, no thinking person believes that the oil measures are confined to the rim of the hills around the eastern and western sides of the valley. On the contrary, it may be predicted that the day is not far distant when a great oil-bearing territory will have been discovered running across the valley and developing a wealth of oil in excess of the already tremendous known supply. 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