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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Mr. Charles J. 8eise

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M~ss Burris: This is the morning of October 29, 1974. .1 om DuVoid

Burris here talking to Mr. Charles J. Beise, the legal counsel for
I the Sout"eastern Colorado Woter Conservancy District. We ore here
in his office at Fairfield and Woods Law Offices in the F'irst National

Just a few words on my pers9nal background in Water Low. Adrnitted
I to the proctice of law in 1933. My first experience in Water Low
wos thb trial of the La Platte River Cherry Creek Uitch Case against

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Bank Building, Denver Colorado. This is 0 cantinuing series of the

historicol background of the ~outheostern Colorado Water Conservancy

District. Would you give us your port of this, Mr. Beise?

Charles J. Beise:

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Hinderlider involving the validity of the Colorodo-New Mexico Water

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Compoct, which Cose went to the United ~totes Supreme Court twice,

In 1935 I wos one of the Attorneys who formed the pine River lrri-
I gotion District with the Vallecitc Project, the Bureau of Reclamotion
and Southern Ute .Indians. I formed between 1935 and 1940 the Moncus

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Water Conservancy District and the Florida Woter Conservoncy District.

From 1941 to 1945 I wos four years with the Bureau of Reclamation as
the Field Legal Co_nsel for the State of Colorado, in charge of the
I legal work of the Colorado Big Thompson Project, At the cessation

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of hostilities I came to Denver to practice law in 1945, and in 1946

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I was approached bi Damian Ducy, who hod talked to Clifford Stone,

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and they wish to hire 0 then young lowyer to help them in procuring

the authorization of the Fryingpan-Arkonsas Project.

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My first action in that behalf then was the formation of the Water

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Develo~ment Association of Sautheastern Colorado. The 8ureou of

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