ELECTRIC POWER
CASES BEFORE
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — Far
. reaching questions affecting electric
power development in Utah, Colorado,
Jdaho, Nebraska, Nevada. California
; and other “public land states, and in
cidentally presenting some of the
most fundamental questions of states
rights to come before the supremo
I court In many years, were involved I
in the government's suit to oust the*
Utah Power Light Company and the
Beaver River I’ower Company from
public lands in ihe Wasatch and Fill
more forest reservations in Utah.
Both companies are Colorado cor
porations. The eases involve directly
federal or state control of power sites
on lion-navigable streams on the pub
lic domain. The pow er companies had
permission from I I ah to develop wa
ter power in the forest reservations
for “public" purposes. In court, they
contended the t ite not the federal
government had authority to permit
use of public lands in developing pub
lic resources within their borders even
on government land.
Fedeial control as against state con
trol wa. sustained in (he Utah federal
courts, which ordered the power com
panies oils1 i from the federal domain |
and directin': removal of their equip-'
ment unh -s they received permits
' under regulations of the interior and
agriculture d p. rlments in accord
with the federal conservation policy.
Upon the appeal similar proceedings
against many other power companies
in public land tales were held in 1
abeyance-. i
Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and j
, Nebraska, through their attorneys
general, intervened in the cases be
cause of their effect upon immense
resources. If the Gates were allowed
to develop those, resources without !
federal supervision, the government '
contended, every valuable power site
lie reservations soon would be owned
by private corporations and "thus de
stroy at one blow an important ele
ment in the (federal) plan of conser
vation.”
On the other baud, the pulrtte land
states contended that, as sovereign
states, they had authority, to the ex
clusion of the federal government, in
developing resources for public pur
poses within their borders, even to the
use of federal land, and that dental of
such authority would be an nnjnst dis
crimination in favor of states not
containing government land. It was
pointed out that 80 per cent of fftah s
entire area and a large percentage of
other western state* i* federal do
main.
Ownership of the public domain it
self was conceded by the »tates. Own
ership of the water within such re
gions was not directly questioned, bat
the states contended they had the
right to make use of the public lands
in developing power resources, when
the lands were not used for any "gov
ernmental purpose," and the st.rdams
were non-navigable, by allowing pri
vate construction on and over th* fed
eral domain.
Other important question raised in
volved construction of several acts
of congress from 1886 to 1901, regard
ing state control over usage of water
of federal land. The lower court held
that tho act of 1891 gave to the state*
the right to grant corporation con
struction for irrigation, but not water
power development.
As to the act of 1901 under which
federal regulations for development of
power were issued, the lower court
held it repealed the 1866 statute which
allowed the states to grant permission
for private use of public lands and
water for “mining,'manufacturing, ag
ricultural and other purposes." The
federal regulations attacked as unaa
thorized by the 1901 legislation pro
vided that power companies mast se
cure departmental permits, revocable
for non compliance with present and
future rules, for power development
projects on public land, with annual
rental charges based on horse power
developed.
Facts in tiie Ftah Power * Light
and Beaver Ktver Power Company
pases differed. In the former the plant
was erected, at Pleasant Grove, Utah,
after its site was withdrawn by presi
dential proclamation as part of the
Wasatch national forest reservation.
In the Beaver River Company's case
its project was begun in 1895 and the
land was not withdrawn until 1906.
Also another power project of the lat
ter company was partly on private
land, althought its conduits ran over
public ground. The Beaver River
Company spent $500,000 before the
government began the ouster proceed
ings.
Judgments directing both companies
to remove their plants from the for
est reserves, but refusing an account
ing to the government, w'ere given on
March t, 191&, by the Utah federal
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JUAREZ, Mexico, Oct. 30. — Mexi
co pinna to rebuild her revolution shat
tered industries upon a firm founda
tion. With the restoration of peace
in the republic the thousands of fac
tories, mills, shops and stores which
have been burned, wrecked or partial
ly destroyed by artillery fire or by the
great shale beds which are to be
found to be good for cement making. [
The supply Is said by experts to be in
exhaustible and the shale beds are
located near enough to the railroad
to make haulage costs, low.
The representative of the American
cement company is being given every
encouragement by the Carranza offi
cials. They realize the importance of
having such a plant on the border,
where its product can be shipped to
all points in the Interior it a low cost, j
While many of the buildings in Mexi
I co are built of adobe, the larger build
ings are made of brick and stone, con
crete having been little used in con
struction work in the interior because |
of the comparative scarcity of cement.
Mexican Agricultural Poons in the High Plat<*:iux <>t Mexico,
Piling Hay.
work of the bombing crew which are
always a part of a Mexican army in
the field, are to he rebuilt.
The representative of a large Paci
fic coast manufacturing company re
cently visited Andres Garcia, inspector
general of consulates for the Carranza
government, and General Francisco
Gonzales, commander of the Juarez
garrison, and consulted with them re
garding the erection of a $1,000,000
cement plant in Juarez to utilize the
With the construction of a plant to
manufacture cement hero, many Moxi
' can laborers who are now forced to
go to the United States in search of
employment will lie employed, and
because of the lower cost of labor in
tins country, it will be possible to sell
the finished product of die plant at
a much lower rate than that prevail
ing in the United States, the promoters
say.
Empress Theater
MONDA YAND TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30-31
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