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not. I'm told by you that there is an exchange possibility into the Bijou Canal. Let's say I'm Mr. X and I have land under the Bijou Canal. I want the water. And Cecil tells me that I can't get it out of Narrows and you tell me that I can get it out of Narrows. Now what am I going to do? That's the question." MR. KNIGHTS: "Want to answer it, Joe ?" MR. BARRETT: "No, I don't want to answer it altogether. We never suspected, or intimated, that we could deliver water by exchange through the whole irri- gation season without some upstream storage at Two Forks or some other site. That's the reason that was brought into the picture. I do feel that if we do have that upstream storage, then we can probably firm up the water supply so the Bijou and the Empire can be served. And we could proba- bly do it just as well with the Narrows as we could with Weld County. Now if you need further studies we will have to do those. But again let me caution you that the further you branch out, for goodness sakes let's not have somebody hold- ing this 1964 deadline over us." MR. STAPLETON: "Now that's one thing that concerns me. I don't consider the Two Forks as particularly branching out from our original premise. Now am I wrong in that ?" MR. BARRETT: "That's right. Two Forks has been in it since we decided to make this a valley study in January of this year." MR. STAPLETON: "Can we get some study of the Two Forks ex- change possibilities with the Narrows Project to alleviate or confirm the fears that there won't be any water ?" MR. BARRETT: "We are working at that just as fast as we can now and have been, ever since January. It is just one tremendous task." MR. STAPLETON: "What do you think in terms of time? Is there any estimate that can be given ?" -39-