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<br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-5- <br /> <br />proceeding was brought by the state against the city. <br /> <br />At the meeting there was a suggestion made about Samples <br /> <br />having said he could get replacement water for the council, and <br /> <br />Mattern was very perturbed. <br /> <br />"No one deals in water or they won't <br /> <br />be working for the State Engineer's office," Mattern is quoted as <br /> <br />having said. <br /> <br />Later Samples told Varner where he could get replacement water <br /> <br />for the city. Varner said that the water was to come "from. Senator <br /> <br />Ted Gill." Samples gave Varner a water transfer form used by the <br /> <br />Riverside system for renting the water from Senator Gill. The <br /> <br />form was filled in and would have authorized transfer of Prewitt <br /> <br />Reservoir water to the city. Varner believed that this form was <br /> <br />somewhere in his office, but after repeated searches was unable to <br /> <br />locate it. <br /> <br />Varner recalls that Samples discussed this transaction with <br /> <br />him on the basis of renting "one share of water." He said that <br /> <br />it was Samples' job to determine how much replacement water would <br /> <br />be necessary for the golf course well, although he did not recall <br /> <br />any dollar amounts being quoted. <br />Varner said that the golf course well was drilled in 1961 <br /> <br />and that there are many junior wells which were not shut down or <br /> <br />threatened. He attributes the whole episode to arguments over the <br /> <br />Narrows Project. According to Varner the people in control of <br /> <br />the Riverside system are opposed to the Narrows because it would <br /> <br />diminish the value of old water rights which they control and lease <br /> <br />out to others on a seasonal basis. Since the Fort Morgan City <br /> <br />Council supported the Narrows Project, in Varner's view, Samples <br /> <br />"and his friends" at the Riverside then decided "to go after the <br /> <br />WOODWARD.Cl YOf-SHERARD AND ASSOCIATES <br /> <br />________L <br /> <br />L_______ <br />