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<br />:. J <br />\J ..).. .j ~ <br /> <br />061~ '1-7- <br /> <br />April 17, 1952 <br /> <br />CO:-t...1~:;Isiuner <br />Bureau of f/ecl~''1t1on <br />United States Departmen:~ of the Interior <br />lIel' Interior Building <br />~;ash1ngton 25, D. C. <br /> <br />S~ocia1 poliver,y <br />hIJl:tAIL <br /> <br />Attention: Ilu.th l~. 5'-ldler, Editor, <br />The lleolam-"t:ton Fra <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />DellI' Eelitol' Sadler. <br /> <br />Enclosed you will find the article which I have prepa.red for <br />The l?ecla!nation F,ra- entitled "One Hundred Year'S of Irrigation <br />Dcvelop:nellt in Colorado". Also enclosed Are five photOgraphs <br />which lIIIl,y be tIDed with the article. <br /> <br />Ur. Wilkinson of llegion 5 and llr. Willi= of Region 7, Bureau <br />01" Jieclrun,.-:ltim, advise me tha.t you "re femiliar W'it,h the /U'range- <br />mcnts which wore ffi'Jce ror me to prepare thie article. I \'111.5 advised <br />thpt April 16 is the deadline, Md llCCOrdi.ng~, I llrl air.n3iling <br />this material to you spl'tCial delivery. <br /> <br />lJr. Wilkinson told me that the article should be con.f:tned, as <br />nearly as possible, t6 1,0CXl warda. '-11 esti!ll'tt(\ of the length of <br />the article is thRt the:'e may be a f(!>1 worda in excess of llOO. I <br />have "boiled dDW!l" the contents, whj.ch cover a broad field, as much <br />as it seems pO:Jsible, and trust th,t the fCl'l \Yord.:! overrun will not <br />necessitat.e cut-tine; the article in an;y place. <br /> <br />You will note that the. "lead-off" or the artlc1e features the <br />Colorado IrriBation Centennial a-''1d tho placi.ng of the Monument on <br />April 1) at the heudEate of the San Luis People's Ditch. The Centennial, <br />celebration, particularly at San LuiG. was most colorful, Ql1d it seems <br />to me. provide!l a desirable apI'roach to " 1'Cv16W of one-hundred years <br />of irdgution de~eloproent in Colorado. <br /> <br />I do not know how l'J.:my photographs you cOIn UllC, but I l!lll hopeful <br />that YGU can use all of them which 1 am alelcsing. ltr rel1.8one cu-e <br />tlr,t tho two photogl'aplw taken of the IrrlgC!tion Centennial would he <br />very appropriate; three of tho photO(;l'aph:!: portrDy irrigatioo structures <br />in e8c~1 of the three regior-!l of the i3tu"eau of fioclumation in Colorado. <br />