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<br />OOUS1 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />Under the Federal Power Aot, as amended, the Land <br /> <br /> <br />Commissioner of the state of Arizona, on or about the 29th <br /> <br /> <br />day of July, 1938, filed an applioation for a preliminary <br /> <br /> <br />permit with the Federal Power Commission at Washington, D. C., <br /> <br /> <br />asking a permit to investigate the possibilities of the <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado River at Bridge Canyon dam site, with the end in <br /> <br /> <br />view of oonstructing a power dam at that !,oint. <br /> <br /> <br />As no objeotion has been made to the form of <br /> <br /> <br />applioation we do not attach a oopy thereof to this brief <br /> <br /> <br />as we believe it would be of no immediate benefit and only <br /> <br /> <br />serve to enoumber the presentation and make it more diffioult <br /> <br /> <br />to handle. <br /> <br /> <br />The application, however, fixes the location of <br /> <br /> <br />the dam site and the reservoir as being in the Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />River about ten and one-half miles below the mouth of <br /> <br /> <br />Diamond Creek and a short distanoe below Gneiss Canyon in <br /> <br /> <br />Mohave and Cooonino Counties, Arizona. <br /> <br /> <br />The Colorado River shall be treated in this brief <br /> <br /> <br />as a non-navigable stream for commerce, since the Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />River Compact, Article IV, (a). expressly so declares and <br /> <br /> <br />reserves the water of the river for domestio, agricultural <br /> <br /> <br />and power purposes. <br /> <br /> <br />The applioation of this state for a preliminary <br /> <br /> <br />permit having, been filed, the matter oame to the notioe of <br /> <br />I, <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />3. <br />