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Show 132 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER press releases, disseminated a capsule description of the Arizona development which said: The proposed Central Arizona Project would use water it doesn't own lift it nearly twice as high as the Washington Monument convey it farther than from Washington to New York require federal appropriations of more than a billion dollars cost the nation's taxpayers more than two billion dollars in lost interest FOR WHAT? To irrigate 200,000 acres of privately-owned, war-boom desert land that could not and would not be required to repay any of the construction costs and would raise crops which are now surplus and sub- sidized by the government. Rep. Poulson gave support to the association's running fight by attacking its counterpart in Arizona, The Central Arizona Project Association. It was Poulson's contention that exploitation and wanton waste of water in overdevelopment had created a water shortage on some privately-owned lands in central Arizona, and that the landowners wanted the United States Treasury to save their investments. "To carry out this scheme," he told Congress,146 "Arizona interests organized the Central Arizona Project Association to lobby their bill through Congress. Who are the contributors to the association?" Poulson answered his question by naming: Central Arizona Light and Power, $2,500. Phelps Dodge Corp., $5,000. Natural Gas Service Co., $500. Phoenix Title and Trust Co., $1,000. Phoenix Clearing House, $5,000. First Federal Savings and Loan Assoc, $500. |