Show wyoming congressman asks for solid fight for colo river project the upper colorado river basin stated are ancl with it tremendous fight in ili congress before the colorado Colora dh aliver stor age project can he lie pit passed bo be cause california li iq it till delet mined to defeat the this wai it 11 W arning given IV by U S representative kohli reith 11 II it wyo ID ili add address ing the wyoming association in ill green orven river wyo ladt v ev k j ind in deliver ing the principal eldri Kl dri s nt the association 4 banquet when in ill asked nil all citizens to aid Wyo congre congressman pointed out that california iq s ic le to give up heap heat power and charged that the californi ans arc are pre presently antly wasting w waters from the upper basin including our own green river into the salton sea and into the gulf 0 of california in order to get let this power he ile explained that calif arnin gets power developed nt at hoover dam and down downstream stream reservoirs out of surplus waters of the colorado river ut at less than cost he ile warned that if the colorado river storage project should tail fail this surplus p power ower might then be established as firm power and the upper ba sin states could permanently be prohibited from the use of its water lie ile was optimistic however that the intrastate fight in colorado could be resolved and that individual attitudes in colorado could be smoothed out so as to heal this breach in the ranks of 0 the upper basin states charged by the congressman is that the objections raised by 11 profess professional ionel garden clubbers clobbers club bers are those stirred up by men and women paid to organize the protests but nevertheless congressmen who otherwise would vote for the project are not in position to do so because of the huge amount of mall mail received opposing the colorado river storage plan because of this it is necessary that Wyoming ites as well as citizens of the other upper basin states personally enter the campaign by contacting friends and business men of the eastern states asking for their aid explained at the banquet by congressman thomson is that the bill does not have to go through any more committee action in the house or senate during the coming session of congress as this is yet the congress but the fight will be to get it onto the floor for vote and to get a favorable vote out of the house of representatives because of this it is necessary to wage the pre session cam laign immediately the future rate of growth in western westeri wyoming is directly dependent upon water he said and pointed out that we have abundant resources such as uranium oil shale oil and gas coal titanium vanadium phosphorus iron ore trona and others all that require water for development without water development we must lie dormant while the country as a whole suffers thomson declared this particular area represented by the upper basin needs the construction work now he conti continua con tinn nut d due to the fact that the coal mines have been shut down we now find ourselves in a temporarily bid economic situation with men out of work in referring to the california situation thomson said actually southern california is receiving energy produced with water that belongs to the upper basin states at 1 30 mills per kallowat killo wat hour since 1938 this has amounted to a subsidy of and should we not be allowed to develop our share of water in the colorado river basin southern california stands to gain that area is actually receiving cheaper government power by reason of the upper basin states being denied the use of their own water guaranteed to them by solemn contract with the lower basin states and the congress he accused southern california of fighting with tremendous amounts of money and misinformation to retain this subsidy green river wyo star |