Show echo park support grows in calif 9 rol following lowing the congressional and the support given the project by influential leaders of the nation there seems to be a growing sentim sentiment nt on the coast in favor of the echo park dam the christian science monitor last wednesday carried the following under a los angeles dateline A positive approach to conservation of natural resources secreta secretary of the interior douglas I 1 mc mckay has lust just declaimed declai axed ed here involves the him determination mi nation to serve as many people as possible 0 s sable he defined tl f ined what he meant specifically he defined it in terms of federal land policy he ile defined it in terms of califor nias central valley at greatest length he defined ft it in tern of his departments view of the potential water resource of dinosaur national monument speaking before the los angeles chamber of 0 Com commorice morce the secretary of the interior himself I 1 a wertly westerner ner a former governor of neighboring ore oregon ni laid down the thesis that each of these controversy centering centring cen centi tring ring problems calls for or a ground solution presumably mably the secretary chose to deal here with dinosaur national monument far away on the utah colorado border because southern california has been called apparently without too much basis the main opponent of an interior department plan ian involving it dam within park rak this is the colorado river storage project mr mckay has as recommended eJ the project to C congress 0 n desm as the best means of making the ancient rivers water nater aval available lalle to the upper basin states ta te key to it would be a dam at echo park which would be within the monuments boundaries and which would flood part of the canyon of two riven rivers other sites site shave have been considered aut mr mckay said here that the department has fou found nd that these alternative sites would mean the loss of as much water by evaporation as a city the size of denver or people would require he ile quoted from a report made to him by undersecretary ralph tudor a californian to sup continued on page 8 ECHO PARK SUPPORT continued from page 1 port his view flirt this would not be fair to the people as a whole nor would it involve destroying ying the natural wonders of a magnificent area mr tudor said national interest In reit cited A 1 I share the tile concern of those who would preserve the beauties of the dinosaur national menu in their present natural states hut but as between a choke of altering the scenery without de destroying n ait it it in a basin basill which is and will remain rich tn in seen cry or the irre irreplaceable loss 0 of I 1 blough nough water to supply nil all the tile needs of a city the size of den dell vr ver I 1 believe the conservation of ill ahr witter water in ili the tile interest of the tile lantion is of greater renter import ance that there is any effective op position tit I 1 n here deenis doubtful at E beust ol 01 st t it Colo colorado Coloru rudo clo river anso asso clation hah hi no posit iori against the departments tipper basin alun although tin the attorney ney for fol ill the association tins lias raised ill alu ii estion whether tit the plan would impinge on oil the lower ba ila sin water supply vital to ind thern rn california mr gilkay assured liin its lon log angeles angele listeners ill tant lit it would not throat t to parks seen because the tile colorado kiver n led Cali fornias tight against Ar abonan lionas central valley broj rt ct it seems to to have been a in ili parts nf vf tit alie west that it would woid OP oppose lost upper lisin hasin deat development 1 hopmen t it at the pre present sent tune nn tin association spoke antan shyh 41 t it sues wes no reason to perhaps the strongest appos oppose thin has come from Califor californians tamed famed sierra club an gania or tion of enn conservation minded people who see in ili tit plan a threat to the notions nations whole lit his tori policy of protecting public parks mr mckay specifically pled pledged here that no ho such danger Is ID in the tile offing he lie said by no stretch of the tile imagination can our recommendation on echo purk park b construed as a precedent for the invasion of other existing xi sting parka parks no one in this administration is going to build it 11 dam in yosemite of yellowstone or run a pipeline into crater lake middle ground policy he ile quoted the foremost con of our time gif tord ford pinchot to the effect that sound bound conservation blends short term and long term interests and arid must always be envisioned as serving the welfare of ull iii the people As mr mckay himself anoll bated this it is a concept subject it to criticism by those who want immediate exploitation of na burul resources on the tile one hand and those who want no exploitation at all on the other it was of course his stand for a middle ground aund policy that g anve a ve his ills taff talk here political significance ance besides ills position on dino national monument he ile spelled out his view on public lands and on Cali fornias central valley it is our determination he lie said of the tile first that a vigorous effort will be made to advance and eti enlarge large surveying and classification of the public lands then rhen he lie added it li is hoped that under such a 0 policy we will bf be able to not only expedite ditc the handling of land matters but assure that steps arc are taken to put tin land to its best use recognize 1 I g in ill all sill cases that there must be 11 41 bIl ballice lice between individual and nut lonal interests on oil the central valley pro eject aich important california wish to to see tit the state our chast from the tile federal government ov ern ment mr air makit said ahat eliut tin the department hus has not hung out it 11 for sale sign si on it this very stick f in i venture into irrigation and flood olit rol he tle went on to pro promise nitie how ever we will listen attentively 11 to uny tiny proposal from california hut but lie also warned we do not oti template it bargain buse base nent ment transaction mr and mrs wiley ba sum un we wen m in ili salt luke city over the |