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<br />17 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1 the Bureau of Reclamation has cond~nned productive agricultural <br />2 land in order to create more productive agricultural land, and <br />3 all this at the expense of hundreds and millions of dollars. <br />4 Right now in northeastern Colorado the Narrows Project is under <br />5 fire because it will put under water a lot of productive farm <br />6 land. You know, here's people ",ho have lived there all their <br />7 lives. They're getting their land taken from them and getting <br />8 what the government feels it's worth for it, and all this at <br /> <br />9 taxpayers' expense. <br /> <br />10 So, it seems to me that the Bureau of Reclamation has <br /> <br />11 . a powerful lobby in ,.;ash1ngton to pass pork barrel legislation <br />12 to get this done. This keeps them busy, it keeps them occupied, <br />13 but the small person who gets bumped on these projects is just <br />14 one of the small costs involved.' The bigger cost is to the <br />15 taxpayer in the long run. <br />16 Like I say, Milly K. Goodwin Lake, which will be in Big <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />17 Soap Park. is narned for 1.1illy K. Goodwin, of course. She used <br />. <br />18 to live in the area of Big Soap Park for a long time and raised <br />19 and ran her cl.'lttle up there until she was a very old lady. r <br />20 visited her cabin where she used to live. r think if ahe'were <br /> <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br /> <br />here today, she would be appalled at the thought that they would <br /> <br />put this nice beautiful valley, you know, it's like a beautiful <br /> <br /> <br />setting out of the old west, you know, or a TV show anyway, and <br /> <br /> <br />horo they're going to put this under water and name it after <br /> <br />her,. t l1nd .I thlnk n:h~ ,,Jnn'l,,1n'.J.. -.!h,....'n.,...^_~_........... "''-_.L. _ o. ...... ._ <br />