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<br />NO\ll \.1951
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<br />From the Office of the
<br />WIlTER DEVELOPMENT IlSSOClllTION OF
<br />SOUTHEflSTERN COLORflDO
<br />129 West Ninth Street
<br />Pueblo,Colorado
<br />
<br />TO THE MEMHERS OF THE WATER DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO.
<br />
<br />Pardon our not having reported to you for the past several months. I don't believe
<br />we have contacted you since we mailed the brochure which set forth in short form the
<br />U. S. Bureau of Reclamation report on aur proposed project, som~ four months ago.
<br />We have been spending as little money as possible, for we have a ways to go.
<br />
<br />How busy we have \leen can be best told by your making a personal call when you have
<br />the time to Marc Williamson's office. Believe it or not the history of your organi-
<br />zation, by means of press clippings, is contained in tuenty-three scrapbooks. Hope
<br />that when we start construction some public spirited. c1 tizen will pay the expense
<br />of compiling or making- photos of our scrapbooks, as ,it would make an interesting
<br />future history. i-'Jhile on the subject, I must again give high praise to the press
<br />and radio of the entire valley for the wonderful job of education they have done on
<br />the project and their Wholehearted support of it. The Chapman luncheon at the Steel
<br />Center some months back was a good example. The press table was occupied by about
<br />fifteen and Radio Station KCSJ was kind enough to make a platter of the Secretaryl s
<br />talk and presented it to me for our library. Marc would be glad to have you drop
<br />in and listen to it.
<br />
<br />We had a Directors meeting in Pueblo on Aueust 30th, which was very well attended
<br />and also constructive. On September 4th Will. E. Yielsh, Executive Secreta:t:''Y of the
<br />National Reqlamation Association, visited with us by appoin~nent and spent the day
<br />with Powell, Christy, Marc and I going over and looking at certain phases of the
<br />project. Displays under the personal supervision of Marc and his secreta~
<br />attracted thousands of people at the Colorado St.ate Fair and the Rocky Ford Fair.
<br />
<br />We have had many meetings up and down the valley addressed by Christy, Powell, Beise,
<br />Williamson and myself on various occasions. Many repayment meetings with water
<br />users have been held under the supervision of Roy Cooper, our Director from Las
<br />Animas, and Dwight Waters of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation in company wIth Marc.
<br />October lOth found some of the boys from Chaffee County meeting with Powell, Marc
<br />and I in regard to some of their perr:onal problems. Which reminds me that Ben or
<br />his staff lull always be- glad to discuss problems peculiar to your area if you wish
<br />to make an appointment. The answer to some problems may be UNO", and again you may
<br />have an approach which has not been thought of and which may be feasible, so don't
<br />hesitate to bring your ideas in.
<br />
<br />FINANCIALLY--we have certain expenses which must be met. The farsighted Commissioners
<br />of otero and Pueblo Counties have agreed to go along as they did for the year
<br />closing with financial support to our organizat.ion in 1952. Other cOli.'1ties should
<br />do the same" The Pueblo Chamber of Commerce is new raising ~7,OOO.OO for our
<br />treasury, realizing that the future of the v;hole valley, upon which Puebloans are
<br />so dependent, rests upon this projectJs actual start.
<br />
<br />UNPLEASANT -- The Santa Fe liailroad refused to help us out financially, which is in
<br />sharp contrast with t.he very .fine coop3ration which "\'18 have had from other organi-
<br />tions interested in our fut-lire. rie have had fine SUr~pOI't from our largest Colorado
<br />employer the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corpora-i:,j.on, from factories, mines, the Ditcl)
<br />Associations, locally owned and naticna~ corporations, but the Santa Fe, which we
<br />are told has given generously in other places, canlt see its way clear to help.
<br />I DON'T LIKE IT.
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