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...enclose a picture of my young Setter "Princeton" pointing quail in the fall of 1929, No.. 150917 A F D S Book. Sire: Florendale Lou's Beau (93779). Dam: Paliacho's Shenandoah Queen...
...This dam and its waters do not need dedicating [cf. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "We cannot dedicate this ground."] It is rather the people gathered here who need to be dedicated [of. Lincoln's Gettysburg address: "It is rather for us here to be dedicated."]* I do not suppose I am expected to speak to the dam and the water. Anything I might say to them would be of little effect. They will stand there unconscious in accordance with the laws of chemistry and physics and no utterance of mine will have any effect on them...
...northwestern corner of Arizona is another, greater dam project-Boulder Dam on the Colorado River-upon which work has not yet been begun owing to the discontent of Arizonans over the proposed distribution of water and power among Arizona and six of her neighbor States. Mr. Coolidge, having spent some time on the Boulder Dam plans, took occasion to admonish Arizonans as 'follows: "It might be helpful when you get home if you would take down your Bible and read that portion which says 'Agree with thine adversary quickly...
Then Citizen Coolidge broke a bottle of Gila River water over the top of Coolidge Dam. As it trickled down the escarpment, Indians whooped, cowboys yelled, politicians clapped their white hands...
Particularly well pleased with Coolidge Dam are the Pima Indians whose reservation lands will chiefly benefit from the impounded waters. Their time-old enemy, the Apaches, a more wandering, warlike tribe, had been moved off lands above the dam to make way for Coolidge Lake, had received $146,000 in U.S. compensation. At the dam dedication, however, the Apaches were in peaceful mood.† They made Citizen Coolidge "Chief White Father"; the Pimas bestowed upon him the title of "The Bringer of Waters."** Then the chiefs of both tribes and Chief White Father sat down on top of the dam...