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Show THE WESTERN WEB 55 more material, which was printed in agate type and required nine pages, including nineteen more charts, graphs and tables of statistics. n Larson told how the project would benefit more than 600,000 acres, how it would supply municipal water to the city of Tucson, and declared that if it were not built great areas of the bountiful land would revert to desert, and Tucson would be forced to halt its own growth. In making the studies for the project, Larson said, the Bureau had first considered bringing water to the project area through a tunnel 143 miles in length. "That would be an in-and-out tunnel," said Millikin. "It would not be a continuous tunnel." "It would be a continuous tunnel," said Larson. Millikin, a brilliant lawyer but no engineer, looked amazed. But, Larson explained, the tunnel had been discarded in favor of a pump lift system. Water would be lifted a thousand feet almost straight up from Lake Havasu behind Parker Dam. Power to operate the pumps would be generated at Bridge Canyon Dam, which would be built on the Colorado above Lake Mead, the reservoir behind Hoover Dam. Two-thirds of the power produced at Bridge Canyon would be sold on the commercial market to help pay for the Arizona Project, and one- third would be gratis to Arizona to operate the pumps. Larson divided the project into units, or features: eight dams, four power plants, two pumping plants, three major aqueducts, and numerous canals, syphons, distribution, drainage and power transmission systems. (See Appendix a.) Then he touched on a subject that was to create long and bitter arguments in future hear- ings. It was the amount of incidental benefits that would |