WSP10175

• File Number: 8141.200
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project - Mailing Lists and Correspondence
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1975
• Author: various
• Title: Fourteen Statements History of Fryingpan-Arkansas Project and Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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water that Colorado didn't use went down the Celorado River

and California got the benefit of it. Of course, the more

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'water we used, the less they got ana so they opposea it very

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vigorously. And there was a man named John P. Saylor from

Pennsylvania, who was on the House Interior C~mnitt.e, who

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seemed to make the Fryingpan the object of personal attacks

throughout

opposed it with every step of tho road and so

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it kind of became more or less 0 laughing stock, whenever

you mentioned Saylor, you mentioned an opponent of the Frying-

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pan, Really, Mr. Saylor is 0 very fine gentleman end every

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good friend of mine;

I think he relented 0 little to~ord5

the end, never voted for the Fryingpon Project, but at lec~t

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he didn't oppose it os vigorously os he hod from the beginning.

But he took great delight in n0801ing the witnesses who would

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come bock on the Fryingpan Project.

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California hod a man in Conyress named Mr. Hosmer and in one

of hiS speeChes on the floor he commented on the fact "Colorado

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is here, they wont to toke water so they cen raise bananas on

the top of PiKes Peak." Such ridiculous things os that, but

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which I think really reacted and boomeranged against him and

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I think we got votes os 0 result of that. aut it wasn't on

easy job to get the Fryingpan Project authorized. I might

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mention that when they authorized the project in 1962, we did
not do it by roll call vote in the House. Tnera were many
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members who come to me~ personal friends of mine, who said,

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"We wont to help you with this project, but we're getting

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