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<br /> <br />in an Asiatic ,Jar, the lass af the Imperial Valley wauld be <br />the lesser af the two. evils. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" The plan far paHer develapment by drapping the <br />regulated flaH af the Calarada River back to. the bed af the <br />river at the Baulder Canyan Dam to develap po.Her at the dam <br />was subtly canceived to. secure the lian's share af the water <br />far the prafit af American Land Specula tars in Mexico.. Once <br />the water has been drapped back to. that laH level; less than <br />1,500,000 acres can be irrigated fram it in Califarnia and <br />Arizana. \Vater enaugh to. irrigate a larger area than that" \fill <br />go. to. Mexico., perfarce. It can go. no.\'lhere else. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" In the Las Angeles Times af Octaber 22, 1922, the <br />public announcement is made that I Hhen the flaw af the Cala- <br />rada River is equated by means af a dam at Baulder Canyan ar <br />elsewhere appraximately 2,000,000 acres af highly praductive <br />land will be under cultivatian, I and ' a large city at the <br />head af the Gulf af Califarnia, Hhere the railraad will bring <br />cattan, cattan by-praducts, alfalfa, and many ather praducts <br />to be transshipped by steamships to. Atlantic and Pacific Parts <br />and to. the Orient.' <br /> <br />" In other \"ards, American speculatars are planning to. <br />annex the Calarada River to. Mexico. to. reclaim aver 1,000,000 <br />acres af land na\f aw.hedby them immediately, belaw the.line in <br />Mexico.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" On this great agricultural falmdatian a new seapart <br />city is to. be built at the head af the Gulf af California, <br />connected by rail with Calexica, to. take fram Las Angeles the <br />trade af the Imperial Valley and the whale Calorado River <br />cauntry . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" The papulatian an these newly reclaimed lands in <br />r~xico will be Asiatic, paying tribute to. Mexico., but cansti- <br />tuting an Asiatic City and State, maintaining in America, with <br />Asiatic labar, a crushing campetitian Hith American agriculture, <br />labor and industry. . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" The battle against this scheme to. annex the Calarada <br />River to. Mexico. to. create Asiatic campetitian in iunerica, <br />will be ane afthe mast bitterly cantested canflicts'ever <br />faught aut to. the end in this cauntry. It cannat be campramised. <br />There is nathing that can be made the subject o.f campramise. <br />It may be years before it is settled. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" Flaad pratectian far Imperial and Yuma nmst be dis- <br />entangledrram it absalutely and campletely. That means that <br />flaad pratectian must be pravided athenrise than by the Baulder <br />Oanyan Pawer praject, behind which the Mexican scheme is naw <br />camauflaged and intrenched, and to. \~1ich the effart has been <br />made to. tie the need far flaad relief, like a can tied to. a <br />dag's tail. <br /> <br />14th-S.F. <br />3 <br /> <br />149 <br />