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<br /> <br />-7- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />d. Cecil Osborne's ve"sion <br />We asked Cecil Osborne about the Fort Morgan golf eourse well <br />episode. Osborne was present at the Fort Morgan city council <br />meetings in question since be is the Fort Morgan city engineer. <br />There were three separate meetings. The first was in the spring <br />of 1965, before the flood and after the passage of H.B. 1066. <br />This meeting occurred following a regular city council meeting. <br />Osborne told the city that if they bought any reservoir water to <br />exchange for the water being pumped from their well, they should <br />buy Jackson L"ke rights because these are the best. He said that <br />he did not advise them to buy any water rights but limited his <br />advice to what kind if they should decide to buy. <br />Nevertheless, John Samples told the city council that it <br />should acquire reservoir rights to protect its golf course well. <br />Osborne remembers Samples having told the council that he did not <br />know what the effect of H.B. 1066 might be and that they should <br />protect themselves against its possible effects by acquiring some <br />reservoir water to use in exchange. The council members asked <br />Samples where they could get such water. He told them that he <br />knew where,but he did not offer to sell any or Bay where he would <br />get it. <br />We asked OSborne where Sanwles would have gotten the water <br />for the council if he had been asked to obtain some. OSborne <br />stated that Samples probably would have gotten the water from <br />"the Gill interests or some of the Jackson L:Jke rights which are <br />usually around for sale." Sll.mples told the council that they <br />ought to have enough reservoir rights to cover all of the water <br />they pumped from their well. Osborne recalls that the total was <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />WOODWARD_CtYOE.5KERARD AI'D ASSOCIATES <br /> <br />'ik.21 <br />