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ACHIEVE ITS URBAN DESTINY, San Francisco appropriated the water and hydroelectricity of the Tuolomne. To become the center of an emergent American region, Los Angeles required the sixth largest river in the United States, the mighty Colorado, the Mississippi of the Far West, the dependable supply of water for 244,000 square miles touching upon seven western states. The Colorado River Basin includes parts of southwestern Wyoming, eastern Utah, western Colorado, eastern Nevada, western New Mexico, the entire state of Arizona (the only state whose entire land mass is within the Basin), and a fragment of southeastern California, the Salton Sink. The moment planning seriously began in the 1920s to impound the waters of the Colorado at Boulder Canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, it was recognized by Arizona especially, which fought the project to the Supreme Court that southern California would be its prime and most immediate beneficiary. Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona, after all, were but in the infancy of their population and land-resource development. Southern California, by contrast, Los Angeles, especially, the largest city in the state since 1920, was entering into its second great boom of subdivision and population growth. A phalanx of prominent southern Californians and their allies in the north played the determinant role in getting the Colorado River Project envisioned, approved, funded, and constructed, in the full knowledge that in doing so they were establishing the foundations of a mighty region, dominated by an allpowerful Los Angeles. |
