AZ vs. CA:12 California Exhibits, Vol. XII; Nos. 1350-1383; 1400-1446; 1501-1518; 1601-1603; 1701-1703

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-30- 5. If the All-American Canal were eliminated from the burdens imposed upon power, and the reasonable cost of flood control were made a non-reimbursable charge to be assumed by the Government, the cost of the dam and power project could be amortized in fifty years. Upon the reconvening of Congress on December 1, certain of these conclusions were speedily reflected in amendments to the bill. The appropriation asked for was increased from $125,000,000 to $165,000,000; the Ail-American Canal was eliminated as a burden upon the power project, and required to finance itself under the reclamation law, and $25,000,000 of the $165,000,000 appropriated was allocated to flood control, the government to be reimbursed, if at all, out of 62 1-2 per cent of the net profits arising out of the sale of power. The other 37 1-2 per cent of such net profits, if any, during the fifty-year amortization period, would be equally divided between the States of Nevada and Arizona. Marble Gorge Investigations In addition to the services of Mr. Stevens, heretofore alluded to, the Arizona Commission engaged Mr. B. F. Jakobsen, of the firm of LaRue & Jakobsen, consulting engineers of Los Angeles, to provide certain data which might be useful to the Board. Mr. Jakobsen is an authority on dam designs, who more than once has gained distinction for his contributions to this brand of engineering science. His services in this connection had an added value from the fact that his firm of engineers had been employed by the Commission to make an engineering investigation of the feasibility of a dam at the head of the Grand Canyon, at a point near Glen Canyon known as