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30 mineral and industrial developments on Navajo land.',77 The original Senate bill also authorized (as did subsequent bills78) the building of capacity in the "Maln Canal," which carried water from storage behind Navajo Dam to the eastern edge of the project lands, for municipal and industrial water uses "over and above the diversion requirements for irrigation."79 At the first hearing, in 1958, in the first few minutes of his testimony, Tribal Council Chair Paul Jones stated that ~, , allowing enough capacity in the irrigation project works to permit delivery of water for M&I purposes "is almost as important to the Navajo people as the Navajo Indian irrigation project itself.'.ao He went on to say that the additional water "will make :1 ~i ~ ~ ~ ~ " '. feasible large-scale industrial development in northwestern New Mexico which, we ff ::: :-- hope, in conjunction with the irrigation project and private and tribal projectS elsewhere on the Navaho Reservation, will permanently solve the Navaho unemployment problem,'08' ,.. !.: t.- ;~" 77Sen. Rep. No. 2198. 85th Cong., 2d Sess. 12 (1968). "-~ ~~.. ;',i j';' 1~,1i I '''iJ, , ,.. \~... ' ~< ~~ .'.it lJt ~ ff:. '';'~ ~r: j::., l!;' i'- ~:', In debate on the floor of the House on May 22, 1962, Rep. Joseph Montoya of New Mexico, sponsor of a NIIP bill, described the project's features, including the shortage- 7a~ citations in note 41, ~. 79Senate Hearin~ 1958. ~ note 17 at 4. SOld. at 99. See also Senate Hearing 1959. ~ note 17 at 33; House Hearing J.2QQ, ~ note 41 at 65-66; and Senate hearin~ 1961, ~ note 17 at 36. a'SenateI:Jearinl1 1958. ~ note 17 at 99. Under recent custom, "Navajo" is the accepted spelling of the tribe's name. Some sources predating the 1960's use the "Navaho" spelling. In quotations from those sources, the original spelling is preserved.