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Cadillac Desert Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner 1986 Chapter 7 Dominy Arizona Water Issues (c) 2009 The University of Arizona HWR203 1

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Cadillac DesertCadillac Desertby Marc Reisner

1986

Chapter 7

Dominy

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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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Jack August

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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

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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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