| Title |
War for the Colorado River Volume II; Above Lee's Ferry |
| Creator |
Terrell, John Upton |
| Subject |
Water rights; Water resources development; Water resources development -- Law and legislation; Rivers |
| OCR Text |
Two volumes describing the California-Arizona controversy over the Colorado River. Part One - Hungry Horse Prediction; Part Two - January on Capitol Hill; Part Three - The Ides of March; Part Four - A Stacked Committee; Part Five - Hi Ho, Aqualantes; Part Six - Bananas on Pike's Peak; Part Seven - Dollars into Dust |
| Publisher |
The Arthur H. Clark Company |
| Date |
1966 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Digitization Specifications |
Pages were scanned at 400 ppi on Fujitsu fi-5650C sheetfed scanner as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. For ContentDM access the images were resampled to 750 pixels wide and 120 dpi and saved as JPEG (level 8) in PhotoShop CS with Unsharp Mask of 100/.3. Foldout pages larger than 11" x 14" were captured using a BetterLight Super 8K-2 digital camera back on a 4x5 view camera (100mm Schneider APO lens). Oversize images were resampled to 1500 pixels wide. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by ABBYY FineReader 7.0 with manual review. |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation |
Western Waters Digitial Library |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2005, Marriott Library, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Source Physical Dimensions |
Book 2 v. maps. 24 cm. |
| Scanning Technician |
Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097. |
| Call Number |
LC: KF5590.C6 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64t6h83 |
| Setname |
wwdl_books |
| ID |
1130135 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83 |
| Title |
page 284 |
| OCR Text |
284 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER This construction would provide irrigation, power, muni- cipal and industrial water supply, and some flood control benefits. It would diversify the crop production and stabilize the agricultural income of the area. History shows that irri- gation in the West adds to the national wealth and creates new markets for the products of the rest of the nation. The Upper states, in the Colorado River Compact, have made minimum flow commitments to the Lower states of Ari- zona, California, and Nevada. Large storage reservoirs are necessary to meet these commitments and at the same time, permit the Upper states to use their share of the water, with or without government help. Federal reclamation has been a Republican program; com- menced in the Reclamation Act of 1902 during the administra- tion of Theodore Roosevelt. Cost Much has been said to the effect that the full development of the water resources in the Upper Basin would cost several billions of dollars. Th structures authorized in HR. 3383 would cost about $760 million and are self-contained financially and otherwise. No additional construction is necessary to make them feasible. Any additional projects will depend upon Congressional action and be subject to the usual reviews by the Bureau of the Budget. Objection has been raised to the costs per irrigated acre. The costs range from $500 to $700 per acre. These are not out of line with other highly successful projects in this area. These costs will be repaid over a fifty year period and represent only $10 to $12 per acre per year. The diversification of crops and stabilization of income make these project costs feasible. The principal opponents of this project are not opposing a project in California now pending before Congress that would cost $1800 per acre. This objection has been directed pri- marily at projects not included in this bill, such as the Navajo Irrigation Project - which is not the same as the Navajo Dam authorized in the bill. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Identifier |
286-UUM-WarColo2_page 284.jpg |
| Source |
Original Book: War for the Colorado River, Vol. 1 |
| Setname |
wwdl_books |
| ID |
1130096 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6h83/1130096 |
