Applications from Mexico for irrigation. including the lands now being supplied. have grown to over 400.000 acres. The charge on the American side for the water has gradually increased. whereas the Mexican charge remains at a low arbitrary figure. Thus farming in Mexico is not based on natural and ordinary laws that should figure in competition. but Chinese coolies are growing cotton at the expense of American taxpayers in the West. As a result.of our studies we find that. instead of the Boulder Dam project increasing cotton production. it will limit the same. and such cotton as is produced will not be produced on unfaircompetition grounds. With the Imperial Valley producing. in 1926. 6.838 bales of cotton as against 17.750.000 produced in the United States. and with cotton production becoming less annually. it is only a fair conclusion that the cotton interests of the South can not be injured by the developments which will take place in that coinmtnity under the Boulder Dam project and. indeed. their injury. if any. will be found in the failure to build rather than in the building of the same.