--- title: "1 Colorado river Quotes By David Owen" description: "1 Colorado river quotes by David Owen. Plus more from David Owen and more Colorado river sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/david-owen-57914_colorado-river_while-hoover-dam-was-under-construction_2802447.jpg" --- > [“WHILE HOOVER DAM was under construction, California began building the Colorado River Aqueduct and Parker Dam. Arizona’s governor, Benjamin B. Moeur, viewed the dam as an act of theft. Like many Arizonans, he worried that Southern California would suck the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-owen/while-hoover-dam-was-under-construction-california-began-building-the/) [David Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-owen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/david-owen-57914_colorado-river_while-hoover-dam-was-under-construction_2802447.jpg) ## More by David Owen > [“The gourmet infatuation with tiny vegetables has water and energy implications. 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This is an issue that, in the United…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-owen/there-are-too-many-people-in-the-world-and-too-many-more-are-on-the/) [David Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-owen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colorado-river/david-owen/#itemlist", "name": "1 Colorado river Quotes By David Owen", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“WHILE HOOVER DAM was under construction, California began building the Colorado River Aqueduct and Parker Dam. Arizona’s governor, Benjamin B. Moeur, viewed the dam as an act of theft. Like many Arizonans, he worried that Southern California would suck the river dry before Arizona was in a position to divert almost any of its own share, whatever that turned out to be, so he sent a small National Guard detachment to the construction site to make sure that neither the workers nor the dam touched land on the Arizona side of the river—a challenge for a dam builder, you would think. The National Guardsmen borrowed a small ferryboat from Nellie Trent Bush, a state legislator who lived in the town of Parker, a few miles downstream. As the boat approached the site, it became entangled in a cable attached to a construction barge, and the National Guardsmen had to be rescued by their putative enemies, the people working on the dam. Moeur later sent a message to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in which he said that he had “found it necessary to issue a proclamation establishing martial law on the Arizona side of the river at that point and directing the National Guard to use such means as may be necessary to prevent an invasion of the sovereignty and territory of the State of Arizona.” By that time, his National Guard detachment had grown to include many more soldiers, as well as a number of trucks with machine guns mounted on them. 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