| Title |
War for the Colorado River Volume II; Above Lee's Ferry |
| Creator |
Terrell, John Upton |
| Subject |
Water rights; Water resources development; Water resources development -- Law and legislation; Rivers |
| OCR Text |
Two volumes describing the California-Arizona controversy over the Colorado River. Part One - Hungry Horse Prediction; Part Two - January on Capitol Hill; Part Three - The Ides of March; Part Four - A Stacked Committee; Part Five - Hi Ho, Aqualantes; Part Six - Bananas on Pike's Peak; Part Seven - Dollars into Dust |
| Publisher |
The Arthur H. Clark Company |
| Date |
1966 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications |
Pages were scanned at 400 ppi on Fujitsu fi-5650C sheetfed scanner as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. For ContentDM access the images were resampled to 750 pixels wide and 120 dpi and saved as JPEG (level 8) in PhotoShop CS with Unsharp Mask of 100/.3. Foldout pages larger than 11" x 14" were captured using a BetterLight Super 8K-2 digital camera back on a 4x5 view camera (100mm Schneider APO lens). Oversize images were resampled to 1500 pixels wide. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by ABBYY FineReader 7.0 with manual review. |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation |
Western Waters Digitial Library |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2005, Marriott Library, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Source Physical Dimensions |
Book 2 v. maps. 24 cm. |
| Scanning Technician |
Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097. |
| Call Number |
LC: KF5590.C6 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64t6h83 |
| Setname |
wwdl_books |
| ID |
1130135 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83 |
| Title |
page 054 |
| OCR Text |
54 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER belief that a mission to Salt Lake City might be helpful in improving the rapidly deteriorating relations between California and the Upper Basin states. A meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Salt Lake was selected by Jensen as the forum before which he would make his diplomatic pitch. Deciding that three could be more persuasive than one, he ar- ranged to have Franklin Thomas, Cal Tech dean and chairman of the Colorado River Board, and James H. Howard, general counsel of Metropolitan, accompany him. He had to induce Thomas to go, but he could order Howard to make the trip. Thomas went rather than create more dissension be- tween himself and Jensen on the board, and Howard merely obeyed his boss, but neither had any faith in the maneuver, and Howard was convinced that it was un- questionably unwise. Howard was right. All three men spoke in Salt Lake, and sought to im- press uppon the Upper Baisn states that California honored their rights in the Colorado River. California's opposition to the crsp and the Central Arizona Project was based entirely on its wish to develop the West ac- cording to sound standards of economics. A plea was made to the Upper Basin to work with California in separating the good from the bad projects, and to pre- vent the Reclamation Bureau from securing greater dominion over the western states. 65 The mission was a complete flop. The Upper Basin's reaction was a stiffening attitude and a heightening of suspicion toward California. Moreover, there was re- sentment against Jensen, who was looked upon as an Upper Basin native who had come home after years of absence, in an attempt to dissuade his own people from |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Identifier |
056-UUM-WarColo2_page 054.jpg |
| Source |
Original Book: War for the Colorado River, Vol. 1 |
| Setname |
wwdl_books |
| ID |
1129866 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83/1129866 |
