Show Utah Colorado Delegates tes Meet Meek Rebuff on River Project Plea I WASHINGTON V March larch 3 Riding a boat down the Green River one of the roughest in the country wasn't too tough for Harry Ratliff an engineer from rom Vernal Utah But trying to get the government to build dams in inthe inthe inthe the river is something else again Ratliff was in an engineering I party which made an expedition I I down the wild river in 51 1950 I to get data in connection with I dams proposed in Colorado and I Utah Only about persons have negotiated the rivers river's rough rapids and about 25 drowned trying to do it Beat Down Opposition Last week Ratliff led a group fi from om Utah and Colorado to the national capital They tried generally generally generally gen gen- to put some steam behind a drive for dams along the upper Colorado and its tributaries and specifically to beat down opposition opposition opposition tion to Green River projects The group got encouragement from members of or Congress representing representing Colorado River states who favor construction of a bil bil- bil- bil lion dollar series of dams as the Upper Colorado Basin storage storage stor stor- age project Doubt Quick Passage But the group said it couldn't get an audience with Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman I The secretary has not yet given President Harry S Truman his I report on the big project al ai- though basin states approved It last year Chapman has given no indication indication indication indica indica- tion that his report will be made soon I Dr Ernest of Vergal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal gal director of the Utah Museum of Natural History along with Ratliff and other westerners inthe inthe in inthe the group called a press conference conference conference confer confer- ence here to show reporters motion mo mer I tion lion pictures of the 1950 51 1950 51 trip II down the Green River and to argue for dams |