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<br />002531 <br /> <br />This is the area to which people keep movirig. We have to be <br />ready to take care of them here ,md to provide enough water <br />for their homes, farms and factories by which they earn a <br />living." <br /> <br />Mr. Hosmer called particular attention to a "pumpback" <br />feature of the "super-dam." Water used once to make electricity <br />would be pumped back into the reservoir with electricity from <br />steam plants during hours of little de'mand. The additional water <br />would give the dam a better head of hydro power for peak hours. <br /> <br />Mr. Hosmer accused Arizona of siJ:eaking with a "forked <br />tongue" in Washington and expressed hope that it would "come <br />back into the fold" and support the big- dam at Bridge. He pre- <br />dicted failure for a go-it-alone project because the Federal <br />Power Commission would never give the state a license to build <br />. , a dam on the Colorado. Its refusal, he said, would be based .on <br />the premise that such a dam would not'be in the interests of <br />the entire nation. . <br /> <br />Newspaper Fears It's'a 'Lion's Den' <br /> <br />Not unexpectedly, Congressman Hosmer was taken to task <br />by Arizona editorial writers. The P;lOeni:l' Gazette, commented <br />that the "fold" he talked about was "viewed in Arizona more <br />as a kind of lion's den into which the lamb is being invited." <br />Arizona congressmen, said, the Gw::ette" could be expected to <br />support "any workable proposal that induded getting it started <br />now." But" it is not at all likely, in the light of bitter experience, <br />that our people in Washington would again tie themselves down <br />in advance to anybody else's pet projects or combinations." <br /> <br />Mr. Hosmer replied, in a letter to the editor of the Gazette, <br />. that "if this be a den, the Ga:::ett!^ should consider becoming 'den <br />'. mother.' " "It is," wrote the California congressman, "the friend- <br />. ,liest, most sympathetic den a lamb will ever see. It is lined with <br />scores of bills California wants passed, each of which provides <br />for the Central Arizona Project. To speed passage California <br />has come up with a plan enlarging Hualapai's generating cap- <br />acity, fattening the Basin development account and cutting the <br />project's cost below $1 billion. It has dropped insistence on <br />Marble Canyon Dam to diminish conserVationist opposition. <br />California presses for the CAP despite the fact it loses 700,000 <br />acre-feet of water and its MWD (Metropolitan Water District) <br />aqueduct starts running half-dry the minute CAP goes into <br />operation. It does so because California honor-bound itself to <br />abide by the ArizotW VS. Ga,lijo1"nia decision." <br /> <br />Mr. Hosmer said it wasn't California that frustrated Ari- <br />zona's drive for water. "Last year's bill failed," he said, "because <br />Arizona senators refused to commit themselves to help restore <br />it in the Senate to the agreed form if conservationists decimated <br />it in the House. Chairman Aspinall of the Interior Committee <br />has stated repeatedly it was he, not California, who decided <br />against pressing the legislation. This year these two senators <br /> <br />-59- <br />