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293:1 -4- Any resprvoir or reservoirs that are proposed 'must n8cessarily be built largely by public funds. To insure that all parties that are affected directly or indirectly can, be heard, we urge that after the surveJ" is completed, the information be widely disseminated and well advertised, hearings be publicly held, that in the end the most good for the most people will be found. We feel that the procedure followed in proposing Narrows neservoir to date was wrong in that it was proposed with but little study and no hearings were held, prior to establishing a construction camp, to ascertain the views of the South Platte River Basin. The series of hearin.;s being held now should have been the prelude be- fore an appropriation for anything else other than for engineeriJJ2; studies of the problem was sought. 'fe fully realize that much money has been spent, much that can- not be retrieved unless Narroi';s is built, and some that can never be because of our opposition. In the end we believe it is still better this way than to accept quiet- ly something we believe is not suited to our needs or thoroughly justified. Respectively submitted, J.R. Eylander, President Riverside Irrigation District Riverside Reservoir and Land Co. Fort Morgan, Colorado September 12, 1951 Cecil J. Osborne Supt. * * -il- it- 1~ ';Co .;~ ~!- .;~ '* ';"1. S'l'A'l'EMENT OF THE iffiLDON VALLEY _Cj230CIATIOJ:J TO THE COLOlUillO ,:ATER COHSSRVAJiCY BJ!\.HD September 13, 1951 As a result of the notice which appeared in the M?rgan County papers notifying the general public that a hearing was to be held at Fort Morgan, Colorado to receive opinions concerning the construction of the Narrows Dam, a wave of sentiment and feeling swept over fertile Heldon Valley, and as a result a public meeting was held at Weldona, Color&do, Friday, September 7, 1951. At that meeting it became apparent that the people had only one thought in mind - to save their homes and farms which furnished to them their income and which h~d furnished income to the generations before them. Weldon Valley in unique in that a great many of the residents there had fathers and grandfathers before them all oc:upying the same land. It is beyond question that the adjudication of the .raldon Ditch water rights furnish to the acre- age an abundant flow of water, and the crops resulting furnish a major part of the economy of Morgan; County, Colorado. At that meeting the residents decided to form an association so that their views could be properly presented before your Board. A Chairman and Board of Directors was elected.