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~$OGIlE3S REPORT (Cont' d.) -2- April 303 1951 ~ CO - C"'. DOUBLE-TALK ;":. The Pacific Northwest is being given a lot of double-talk these days on the subject of power and water. This Association has picked up California stories in several places, and it appears that: (1) California is telling people in the Northwest that California has no designs on power or water from the Columbia Basin, (2) While doing tlmt, California is seeking to establish a Bonneville- Shasta intertie to wheel Columbia Basin power down into California at the expense of industry in Washir,gton and Oregon. (3) California also is telling Northwesterners that the idea of California's apprbprj.ating Columbia water is all Arizona's, because Arizona hopes that if California can get water up North she won't monkey with the Colorado River. (4) California tells her own Southern Californians that the whole idea of bringing water in from the North is Arizona's just to try to becloud the Colorado River issue and cheat Southern California out of water. A year ago, at the very time Julian Hinds of the Metropolitan Water District was auth- oring a letter in a Portland paper disclaiming any California interest in Columbia Basin water, California lobbying interests in Washington were taking steps to get for themselves water and power out of the Columbia Basin at some future time when presum- ably California's population will be as great as that of the whole U. S. now. The Northwest will soon understand the meaning of all this California double-talk - California wants everything and doesn't care hovr she gets it. Little by little every other Reclamation state vnll learn. THREAT TO RECLAMATION California's Congressman Clair Engle was quoted by the press as saying, just prior to Committee action on t~e Central Arizona Project Bill, that California would "kill all reclamation" before she would see the Arizona bill passed. Thus, Engle has openly admitted an attitude we have said existed all along--and which California, posing as the v~rm friend of reclamation, has denied. CAPSULE COMMENT California built the All-American Canal big enough from the Colorado River to Pilot Knob to carry the vmole river during normal seasons, If California's Imperial Irri- gation District could get the whole river, it could sell the water through Pilot Knob turbines, spilling it over the line into Mexico, and taking the revenues for both the water and the povrer to pay Imperial Irrigation District bills. -0-