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<br />Nesbitt of fort Collins; ,T. D. Sivers, Ault; and Andrew D. Steele,
<br />J~ongmont.
<br />Others who have served one or more terms as directors are:
<br />Victor B. Akin, Louis F. Bein, Walter Bush, Harry W. Clatworthy,
<br />Marvin J. Collins, A. L. Litel, Thomas ,T. McKee, Ray Reynolds,
<br />James A. Stewart, William '1'ormohlen, Olin Venable and Ray
<br />Welty. In 1947, J. R. Barkley was appointed as assistant secre-
<br />tary and engineer. In 1955 he became assistant manager of the
<br />district.
<br />In 'Washington, D. C., we had early day effective "friends in
<br />Court" in United States Senators Eugene Millikin, Ed Johnson
<br />and Alva B. Adams, Congressmen Fred Cummings, Lawrence
<br />Lewis, William S. Hill and Edgar Chenoweth. Clifford Stone,
<br />Director of the State Water Resources Board, helped also to our
<br />great advantage. President Eisenhower has been of much help,
<br />as also have been Reclamation Commissioners Elwood Mead, John
<br />C. Page, H. VV. Bashore, Michael Straus and Wilbur Dexheimer.
<br />Depart\nent of Interior Secretaries Oscar Chapman and Douglas
<br />McKay, as well as Harold Ickes, have assisted us.
<br />Many men, whose names never got into print, were quietly ef-
<br />fective voices with farmers, businessmen's organizations, legisla-
<br />ture and Congress, in getting the project accepted and built. Indi~
<br />viduals associated with processors oj' beets, grain and vegetables,
<br />the two railroads, Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington &
<br />Quincy, banks, other local industries, chambers of commerce, many
<br />mutual irrigation companies, all made important contributions to
<br />the movement to procure this supplemental water supply for the
<br />South Platte Valley.
<br />To mention all locally who have helped from the start would
<br />require a roster of all constructive men of the South Platte Val-
<br />ley and its tributaries of the Cache la Poudre, Thompson, St. Vrain
<br />and Boulder Valleys. The late R. 1\1:. Hay thorn, of Eaton, was one
<br />supporter so prominent that his name was used to represent the
<br />taxpayers as a class, in filing the suit which confirmed the United
<br />States contract. Cal Maier of Longmont, Senator Charles F.
<br />Wheeler, W. D. Farr, Harry Kelly, Charles Swink, Delph E. Car-
<br />penter, C. N. Jackson, J. M. B. Petrikin, of Greeley; H. H. Kelly
<br />of Loveland; Senator Nate Warren of Fort Collins; John D.
<br />Wilson and J. M. Collins of Eaton; and county agents, especially
<br />Lew Toyne of Weld County, were active advocates and petition
<br />circulators.
<br />I trust I may be pardoned for saying that attorneys' tasks were
<br />important in this development. '1'he project lawyers' role claimed
<br />first attention and in a multitude of ways, from the beginning when
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