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o C) .... ~ N 74 COLORADO MAGAZINE estimated in the Engineers' Report of 1935. About the same ratio of rise has occurred in the past twenty years in other building costs, depending on material and labor. Even the Saturday Evening Post, which published Wyoming's ex-Governor Leslie Miller's criticism of this cost rise, now charges 15c, thrice its price of 1935. The Dis- trict is safeguarded by a contractual limitation of about $26,000,000 of this cost, to be retired over a 40-year period of annual install- ments. The first one will likely be paid in 1958. The project may even payout in less than the forty years contracted. 'l'he project is no longer a vision. It is a reality. Only five years elapsed from the 1933 meetings until the start of dirt moving on Green Mountain Dam in 1938. The fire was never allowed to die down in the forge. 'Phis project has alrcady proven a buffer against disaster in the drouth years of 1953 to 1955, in the 800,000 acres benefited by this supplemental water. To strong men living, who put their shoulder to the wheel to accomplish great community benefits, a debt is owed. Such effort should be lnade cause for emulation. Many courageous workers there were who helped along the road, but who had to lay down their burdens before the goal was realized. These men matched our mountains. IN e repeat a remembrance to Charlie Hansen, Fred Norcross, Alva B. Adams, Will Carlson, Sam Clark, James Ogilvie, Fred Cummings, Delph E. Carpenter, Ed Costigan, Judge Claude C. Coffin, Burgis G. Coy, Cleves Howell, Thomas A. Nixon, John C. Page, Porter J. Preston, Dave Roach, Roy McCrery, Moses E. Smith, h L. Stimson, Charles D. Todd, Ray F. Walter, Nate C. Warren and Clifford Stone. 'l'hese all were stalwart workers who have passed on. They built for future generations.