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Show 90 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER It was disclosed that Colorado was not the only state having internal troubles. Governor Pyle of Ari- zona had put his state on record as wholeheartedly en- dorsing the crsp, but now to Chairman Harrison came protests against inclusion of transmountain diversion projects from more than thirty members of the Arizona Legislature.115 "There can be no justification," said one state legis- lator,116 "for taking the natural resources of one state - Arizona - for the benefit of other basin states, which would be done under this project and the power policy of the Upper Basin states. "I protest against the proposed use-of power produced at Glen Canyon Dam, to finance a number of partici- pating projects to divert five million acre-feet of Colo- rado River water out of the basin in the Upper Basin states." California officials had good reason to smile. The protests from Arizona were aimed specifically at the San Juan-Chama and the Central Utah units of the crsp, against which California had taken a firm position. It was January 26, 1954. In seven sessions the pro- ponents of the crsp had held the stage for twenty-eight hours. Opponents had been heard - partly because of a mixup in the schedule - for one hour and twenty- six minutes. Harrison's system for dividing time equally was based on peculiar criteria. In the time he recorded as con- sumed by the proponents he had not included the ap- pearances of witnesses from the Department of the Interior and the Reclamation Bureau. They were, he |
