Show Casually Observing i with Mf Water Users should not act on suggested development THERE HAVE A LOT of thoughts running my mind the past week or so since many of us irrigation and organizations heard a report from the Bureau of and the Utah Water and Power Board on the Central Utah which is a part of the Colorado River Development MY PURPOSE COMMENTING on water development for Duchesne County and the Uintah Basin lias a two-fold Water Is our greatest natural I and on Its development hangs the future promotion and expansion of this as well as the State of the subject should bo taken not just in but also In everyday and In our thinking PURPOSE 2 FOR MAKING these comments is to remind us all those who make a direct living from where water is their greatest and we who make our living from the support of the stockman and dairyman in the communities in which we operate our different types of businesses not to act too hastily in making decisions that will affect all now and in the What we do here today will have its effect on our children and and all future generations to Tins SEVERAL meetings are being held by water users of various irrigation companies to consider building a reservoir as a local Water Users or to 5 wait until the same unit can be built with federal funds as a part of the proposed Central Utah or perhaps by some other jy IT IS NOT MY PURPOSE OR to make a i positive decision of my one way or in f this or to try to Influence anyone as to where ho should or what ho should do when it comes to voting on the propositions that will bo presented to the water users of this My purpose Is 1 to recommend that each stockholder who will bo asked for a decision a lot of thought and rational reasoning to the propositions before making a definite j I HAVE TAKEN a very decided interest in our Water I p. I have attended many meetings where been the only subject of any I intend to attend many more meetings and shall endeavor k to continually become better informed on our I DON'T KNOW IT WILL bo wise to build tho Upalco Reservoir by borrowing approximately from Interest-paying which pro-rated over a long-timo contract would equal tho principal cost In In other I'm trying to point out Is Is the independent project Idea feasible and 11 out r tho farmers who'll have to repay tho costs of tho a. OR WOULD IT BE BETTER to wait a couple of years more were told the final study on Upalco would be II ready to be presented to the congress for I JrE appropriations to build the and have the federal I Im 1 finance the project as a part of Central were led to believe by Bureau officials last week in Casually from page their report that the water users would be expected to pay from to 5 of the total cost of the federally-built This is not a definite so must be considered only as an opinion of those THEN A NEWER DEVELOPMENT since the Duchesne meting last Wednesday that might open still another source of financing with non-interest funds has suddenly been projected into the still in the speculative the latest idea which brings the Utah Water and Power Board into the act lias some very sound and logical implications and could be the answer to the building of as an independent project and not wait for Central Utah to get it on the I'm sure more on this will be said at the water meeting Friday and I WISH I HAD THE ANSWERS to or loth of these most important I DO and I doubt that anyone else concerned with the future water development of this area has tho may I again urge you water users who will be asked to vote on these proposals this or in the near future to THINK THE QUESTIONS THROUGH VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING A If you'll do I'm certain you will come up with the right If you are a praying it might not be a bad idea to do a little of this ONE FINAL I'd like to propose we do the same kind of thinking and studying on another Duchesne County Form Its Own Conservancy or Should We Join A Proposed Seven-County being advocated by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Utah Water and Power This is your question to answer and should be given lots and lots of serious consideration and co THE LAST WORD in the short history of this lias there been more reason for the citizenry of these communities to hang than Remember the words of a great American Wo Shall And Divided We Are Certain To 30 |