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Show 140 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER steal all the water in the river, Raymond Matthew, chief engineer of the Colorado River Board, told the press: "California recognizes the legality of the Upper Basin Compact and has no intention of interfering in the upper states' program for utilization of their rightful share of Colorado Rver water, and how they use it for their own projects is the business of the Upper Basin states. . ." This evoked from the Salt Lake City Tribune 154 the advice that the Upper Basin states should keep out of the Lower Basin controversy. "Let's add no fuel to the fire by joining in a fight which does not directly concern us," it said. From Iowa's Mason City Globe Democrat came the view: 155 "The proposal has every appearance of being a scheme for bringing enormous benefits to a few Ari- zona landowners at the expense of the nation's tax- payers. The deal should be nipped in the bud." Calling the Arizona project "undesirable," the Sa- vannah, Georgia, Morning News said: 156 "It is one that all taxpayers of the United States would be called upon to support for the benefit of a few people in the state of Arizona." The Christian Science Monitor pointed out that electric power from the project would have to be sold in Southern California in order to derive a substantial return on the government's investment.157 The Wisconsin State Journal declared that the project was as "grandiose as Arizona's scenery." 158 The St. Louis Globe-Democrat recalled 159 that the project was not in accord with the President's program, and called it "fantastic." "Silly" was the word used by the Times of Junction City, Oregon.160 |