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<br />-3- <br /> <br />city could get this water and that he could handle the necessary <br /> <br />transactions. The councilmen asked Samples how much it would take <br /> <br />and he told them $7,000 worth of water rights would offset the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />quantity of water pumped. The councilmen "resented Samples' at- <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />titude", and did not accept his offer "because he came at us like a' <br /> <br />banty rooster and we got sore and backed off." <br /> <br />At a later council meeting, at which Division Engineer <br /> <br />William Mattern was also present, this previous episode became <br /> <br />"a hot subject." Samples "got hot" and denied he had said that he <br /> <br />could get water for the city. He claimed he had only said that <br /> <br />he could arrange it for them if they wished. Mattern stated that <br /> <br />he would not allow any dealings in water rights by persons on the <br />State Engineer's staff and that if they dealt in water rights <br /> <br />"they would not work for the State Engineer." <br /> <br />Later Samples tried to shut down the golf course well. John <br /> <br />Lindel in nrush may have signed a complaint at Samples' request. <br /> <br />If he did he "pulled it back." Samples then went to the Weldon <br /> <br />V81ley Ditch people and tried to get them to sign a complaint. <br /> <br />Hall does not know whether they did or not, although he did say <br /> <br />that Don Christensen of the WeLdon Valley Ditch Company board <br /> <br />would know. <br /> <br />The City of Fort Morgan owns a few ditch water rights which <br /> <br />it has acquired by closing some ditches running through town. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />others were sold perhaps 25 years ago. <br />All of the members of the Ft. Morgan city council and the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />mayor, except Les Canfield, a well driller, are in favor of the <br /> <br />Narrows Dam, and are antagonistic to Samples. Canfield is anti- <br /> <br />Narrows and pro-Samples. <br /> <br />(Interview, Robert H. Hall, 1/31/67.) <br /> <br />WQODWARD.Cl VOE.SHERARD AND AS,OClATfS <br /> <br />~. <br />.k.;"'; <br />~;t,. ~ <br />."",',< <br />.~J. <br /> <br />, <br />