Cadillac Desert Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner 1986 Chapter 7 Dominy Arizona Water Issues (c) 2009 The University of Arizona ‐ HWR203 1
Cadillac DesertCadillac Desertby Marc Reisner
1986
Chapter 7
Dominy
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Building 67 ‐ DFC
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Udall and Hayden
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Carl T. Hayden (D)
• 1877‐19721877 1972
• 94 years
6 i ffi• 67 years in office
• 57 years in Congress
• 42 years in the Senate (1927‐1969)( )
Vision in the Desert – Carl Hayden and hydropolitics in the American southwest,
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Early Years
• 1853 Gadsden Purchase
• 1866 Flood
• 1877 Hayden’s Ferry• 1877 – Hayden’s Ferry, AZ Territory
9 lb 10– 9 lbs, 10 oz
• 1889, 1891, 1905 Flood
• 1898, 1901 Drought
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Early Influences
1896 St f d (20 ld)• 1896 Stanford (20 yrs old)Business, politics, water law“I want to make water law a
speciality not only because it is a new and open field where the prizes are large … and I can have greater power for good and evilgreater power for good and evil than at any other branch of law.”
• 1900 Father dies, Takes h f l bover the family business
• 1905 CR floods Salton Sea
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Carl T. Hayden, U.S. Representative, 1914
“I am the first generation of Americans grown to manhood inI am the first generation of Americans grown to manhood in the arid West. I was born in an irrigated valley. I have watered my father’s fields at night. I have led the liquid life on to the parched earth and I know the goodly smellon to the parched earth, and I know the goodly smell when water touches the dusty clods. … When the dry years came (1890’s) I saw fair fields and fruitful orchards go back to the desert I saw the horses pawing the alfalfago back to the desert. I saw the horses pawing the alfalfa, for there were no green thing for them to eat. Even the trees on the ditch banks died. … And then I have seen it all return This same land has blossomed again under thereturn. This same land has blossomed again under the beneficence of the Reclamation Act of 1902.” … Every water user in the West thanks those of you who supported this bill
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supported this bill.
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Early Work
• 1890’s National Irrigation Movement• 1902 Teddy Roosevelt
– Newlands Reclamation Act; USRS founded– Salt River Valley Water Users Association– USRS has plan for gradual comp. development of CRB
• 1903 CH represents Tempe Canal Co• 1903 CH represents Tempe Canal Co– Senior rights threatened by prop. to ignore PA
• 1904 AZ Democratic National Conv. Delegateg• 1906 Tempe Sheriff (travel, % fees & fines)• 1908 Marries
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• 1911 Statehood AZ gets Congressional Rep9
Early Reclamation Projects
• Salt River, AZ
• Milk River, MT
• N. Platte, NB/WY
• Uncompahge, CO
• Newlands, NV
• Shoshone WY• Shoshone, WY
• Minidoka, OH
• Klamath, CA/ORKlamath, CA/OR
• Rio Grande, NM
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Congressman 1912‐1927
• 1914 Reclamation Extension Act
• 1914 Gila River irrigation/flood control study1914 Gila River irrigation/flood control study
• 1917 Power Amendment
1922 S C l I di I i i P j• 1922 San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project
• 1930 San Carlos Reservoir dedicated– Gave AZ beneficial use claims to Gila WS
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Other views
• “I shall oppose any kind of Mexican right in the CR• I shall oppose any kind of Mexican right in the CR until it is determined that there is a surplus of water…” that cannot be used in the US.
• “An irrigator is entitled to receive water as cheaply as possible … this is in the public interest.”
• “The government should not seek to obtain a greater revenue out of the development of power over and above that needed to recoup itself.”
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