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<br />when they comeou~because'they cannot go con- <br />trary' to his recoillrilendations. <br /> <br />As a result of this appropriation and this <br />investigation, the Bureau has come out with a - <br />report which proposes that an additional channel <br />and additional wells be constructed in the vlellton- I <br />Mohawk Project area; that the channel will <br />parallel the existing channel and be built in con- <br />junction with a flood control project planned <br />by the Corps of Engineers so that it will be <br />possible to put more water into the Colorado <br />River during the summer months, and cut back on <br />the winter pumping. This solution does not change <br />the total amount of the highly saline waters, on <br />an annual basis, that are pumped to Mexico. It <br />simply changes the regimen. We do not feel that <br />the Mexicans can in any way accept this because <br />what they will be doing is improving the water <br />for the wheat crop, which is, as we all know, not <br />a high-dollar-yielding crop on a per acre basis, <br />and it will be inhibiting the production of <br />cotton which is a high-do lIar-yielding crop on <br />a per acre basis. Actually it is our feeling <br />that, from some very preliminary computations we <br />have made, the solution that is proposed will be <br />worse for the Mexicans than leaving things alone <br />in that the dollar volume of cotton which they <br />will lose is greater than the dollar volume in <br />wheat that they will gain by this solution. So <br />we do not see that this is any help. <br /> <br />Another little bit of history now to under- <br />stand what we want to propose. The earliest - <br />this is only of interest - irrigation in the <br />Wellton-Mohawk area occurred in 1540. The <br />Indians used to irrigate there from the Gila <br />River. The white man's irrigation started about <br />1840 and, with varying degrees of success, with I <br />surface diversions from the Gila River irrigated <br />this area clear up until and on into this century. <br />With the developments upstream and the erratic <br />nature of the Gila River, surface diversions in <br />the l'1ellton-lllohawk area became impractical and <br />the project was virtually abandoned. In 1931 <br />the project was revived by using pumped irriga- <br />tion and i.n this w.ay they got away from the silt <br />