Show BUSY WEEK PREPARES CASE FOR UPPER COLORADO RIVER here are events of the past week lead leading up to the beginning in of hearings on the upper ca colorado orado river storage project which began in washington monday before the house irrigation subcommittee mountain wednesday states witnesses 1 I tri esses began to assemble in washington among them E 0 larson director of the bureau of reclamation mat jonii regional office in salt lake chy who testified monday asak government vern ment witness and E X X ji utah at torner jeweral it wa was on wednesday that the first 0 thirty one representatives r besenta brorn the uintah rasin basin left vernal by plane for washington the MX six were ben sen B H String bun L Y G E Unten nann hugh W co cotton ai ton C R henderson and orlan orian johnson sen watson former state en gancer who represented utah utalia in gincer the neg negotiation oVAtion of the upper basin com company any said the real objective or of the tight light on echo park Is Is not to save fossils or scenery but to prevent the consumptive beneficial use of water E in the upper basin states california will not object to glen canyon reservoir near the utah colorado border for it will catch the silt that would otherwise be deposited in lake mead then too california expects to get et a large part of the power from from glen canyon it must be remembered that california has employed men whose job it is to know more about the upper basin waters than the people of the upper basin know kinow themselves there is only one cause of all thia this mis information and ballyhoo bally hoo and that is the effort of california to confuse the public mind and thus deprive the upper basin of its consumptive beneficial use of river waters sen watson said john silver president of the local unit of the national association of letter carriers announced that his group grou p is supporting echo park and planned to do some work in behalf of the project when he and ar r delegation tion of four other members left deft for washington friday on association business friday three meetings of the upper colorado river commission were held in washington with representatives from utah W wyoming colorado and new me mexico vr attending at the first meeting jean breitenstein colorado depre on the commission reported arted on an the action taken in UI denver nver at the second meeting held friday after boon colorado proposed a resolution to implement the denver rew recommend lions but when this failed a special committee was named to give consideration to the problem and report back at the third meeting later friday afternoon the committee made its recommendations I 1 ions but at request action on the proposals was shelved until sunday morning the resolution proposed I 1 cross mountain dam on the yampa river along with echo park and glen canyon be authorized as the initial dams for construction 2 authorization for approximately 3 million acre e feet of new storage on the colorado and its tributaries tributa ries above grand junction 3 include the denver blue river diversion as a participating project provided that before any money Is appropriated the secretary of in aparo interior brior shall approve the denver plan and the method of rf repayment the resolution represented a compromise of the earlier mo continued on page 8 BUSY WEEK PREPARES continued from page 1 uon wt w ch was proposed by colorato interests saturday A delegation of more than 40 utahna agreed saturday to accept with reservation colorados r bego cego ts proposed changes in the uproar upper colorado storage project eject legislation under the proposal made by judge 3 J A howell ogden chairman of the utah water ana and power board ioard which the group unanimously approved utah would have no objection to the crose crosz mountain project but would insist that the proposed special storage projects for colorado be put on the same basis as other participating projects ejects in the bill and not require just ut approval of the secretary of interior as proposed by colorado also saturday hugh W colton was named as chairman and spokesman for the utah executive tive committee rep william A dawson reported that he had personally contacted every member of the house irrigation subcommittee of which ch he Is a member ana and I 1 think most of them will RO ile along with us rep douglas R stringfellow said he felt there was a tendency to emphasize the potency of the co so called nature lovers who oppose oppose echo park dam dom sen on arthur V watkins directed the attention ol 01 the group to a statement issued saturday d ay by president JA jamea mes C pat patton t on of the national Ir farmere un union lo 10 n endorsing endors ln construction c of the he t upper upper colorado olor sido storage project pe and ita its important echo park r dam 04 contrary to a public report said bald mr pat potton will on the farm lam organization will the con st ruction of the pro project act our tte staff has studied the project care carefully carefully full and we since sincerely raly believe its ts speedy construction would be in the best interest of the region while we are perfectly aware of the importance of dinosaur national monument as a historic statue and monument we have caeto c the that nat the proposed storage project protect would enhance rather than despoil the area we h have ave been far for from impressed with arguments presented so far that there are equally suitable locations for the site of the echo park dam sunday v the upper per colorado river Com commission misson at ota a harmonious public meeting ii sunday gunday morning reached a unanimous agree 0 ment on the program and an accepted cepter without argument ament the reikai which insisted on and pro proposed ant ased changes by colorado and wyoming besides the thra proposals of tho special committee submitted friday the four paces pages of passer passed sunday included the addition of kendall dam on the gren river in wyoming and authorization of the dam on the gunnison river only if it is built to a height which will impound not less than acre feet of wat water eror or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity as can be obtained by a high water line located at al 71 20 feet above mean sea lerol another sunday development was the announcement by hugh W colton of membership in his executive committee set up to coordinate efforts of water iwers with the state water and power board and the congressional delegation they included J R bingham tom jensen salt lake springville city ty henry fien roberts goshen and T on clark callister CalUst cr fillmore by monday morning there were some 75 persons representing utah in washington and of these thirty one were from the uintah basin local delegates were besides those already alread mentioned dale dole jensen TI mayor abor ralph curtis dudley mr and mrs jack ack C turner mr and mrs fran filtch leon P christensen chris mckinley mr and mrs wiley baucum hanry Mille carn sr harry ratliff mr and mrs grady brady russell mrs A P voorhies and mrs george E adams all ali of uintah county flo floyd d E lamb A hale hole holgate behnle bennie Sch charles edward kenneth aycock choder lyman wayne malin and iday ray brown all of duchesne county |