Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. In 1934, with plans in place for United States Reclamation Service and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build Parker Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and California, Arizona governor Benjamin B. Moeur protested the diversion of water to California by sending members of the Arizona National Guard to the dam construction site. A local ferry service also participated under the informal name of the Arizona Navy. Ferry Nellie Jo, small wooden boat with pilot house and wooden railings, marked 809-A, on Colorado River with shoreline and mountains in background Related to the article, “Arizona Sea Dogs Demand Battleship for Dam ‘War,’”Los Angeles Times article, March 10, 1934. The article states: "… the following telegram was dispatched to Isabella Greenway, Arizona’s Representative in Congress: '... use your influence towards having battleship Arizona dispatched at once to scene California-Arizona controversy at Parker, Ariz., to replace ill-advised mobilization of Gov. Moeur’s landlubber army. … If battleship not available then suggest steamboat Nelliejo now cruising on Colorado River be fully armed … Are standing by for orders. Rush cutlasses and necessary dust masks. …'" Text from nitrate negative sleeve: (unidentified)
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b&w nitrate negative
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0529 uclamss_1429_0529 ark:/21198/zz002d9tcc
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Subject
Transportation Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Ferries--Arizona--Parker Environment Parker Dam (Ariz. and Calif.) Nellie Jo (Ferry)
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