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Show The Senator Reports To The People ft Senator Arthur V. Watkins j I f , almost DO years of p)a vclop power sites on th I River. And the letterVt show that the Federal p Comm'ssion, which sn referred to the Echo a - 'Mountain sites in its : I recognized the p0Wer Jf of the area, and dovn V I the years refused to reij! 1 1 their power reservations 1 power reservations still'., force and -effect and th 1 t-onal Park Service and ( conservationists knew it .. ! time the Monument was', 1 lished. They also are ' aware of it today, althou-'" 1 read their propaganda tl 1 anyone not familiar J subject would think that ' who wish to develop the have no respect for perpet, c of the areas nor do they' c any right to construct c projects. s Indian Problems 2 The Navajo Indian r s also has received my ati; c recently. I have request v Secretary of Labor for a e on whether or not the h -ment of Labor is extendi-portunities extendi-portunities in its appt-- h training program to th; n dians. If such opporfc j have not been made ati7; f; to the Indians, some - a should be taken to see thr a are afforded the advaifc C the program. " s I have also learned th:; h Department of Interior k " bitrarily reduced funds it: Intermountain Indian Sdr h Brigham City. This red;: h will force the school super- N dent to reduce the eniot-of eniot-of Indian children by 20! the same time, there are '; 'c who would further depriv; sc Indians of funds for such f11 f ul purposes through their : !n port of proposed legiil m which would require the; " and thousands of dollars!: dian money to pay for t vestigation of the Indians. 1 proposed investigation t: obtain facts which are re:: available on reservations r. the files of the Indian B. itself. L Reclamation, always an im- t nroblem to the people TlUah has had quite a bit of tte2n in Washington during j irl-orepresentative I haJe been working on the TeZer Basin program; tiief lood control program on the Web.r River as well as building case to support the construction cfthe Echo . Park and Split Mountain dams which are int. gral portions of the Central Utah project. . Weber Basin and Flood Control Financial problems of the Bureau Bu-reau of Reclamation as they affected af-fected the Weber Basin project were discussed here by Ward C Holbrook, president, and E. j" Fjeldsted, manager, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District Dis-trict I am hopeful that sufficient suffi-cient funds to complete pre-construction pre-construction planning can be obtained. ob-tained. In addition, every effort ef-fort will be made to support our demands for construction money for portions of the Weber Web-er Basin project which can be justified as necessary to the nation's na-tion's defense efforts. Secondly, Gen. Chorpemng, assistant chief of army engineers engi-neers for civil woiks, has sent to district offices for a report on emergency flood control needs on the Weber River. The general gen-eral informed me- that if the investigation in-vestigation of the district supports sup-ports the evidence submitted by Mr. Fjeldsted and Mr. Holbrook, Hol-brook, he probably will authorize author-ize the expenditure of $50,000 for immediate improvement work on the Weber channel, particularly in three locations where the greatest threat of overflow exists. Echo and Split Mountain The Central Utah project and the national campaign now under un-der way by conservationists who oppose construction of the Echo Park and Split Mountain dams keep me constantly searching for arguments and evidence to refute the half truths, innuendos and deliberate deliber-ate attempts to misrepresent the facts by these groups. I have had the Library of Congress searching the records for me in an effort to determine Federal policy and to refute contentions of those who oppose the dam-sites dam-sites that the project was: First, advanced without the knowledge knowl-edge of these conservation groups; and, second, that the projects violate the fundamental purpose for which these national na-tional monuments were established. estab-lished. The Real Record I am happy to report that the Library of Congress has supplied sup-plied me with photostatic copies of correspondence dating as far back as 1904, between the Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation Reclama-tion and the Federal Power Commission This correspondence, correspon-dence, which I intend to use in a Senate speech shortly, shows that all parties concerned were and have been fully aware for |
