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9 • COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD 215 State Services Building 1525 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 February 15, 1965 M E M O R A N D U M TO: Felix L. Sparks, Director. FROM: Laren D. Morrill, Senior Plater Resource Engineer. SUBJECT: Proposed West Paradox Project. On November 9, 1964, a meeting was held in Paradox, Colorado, to ascertain the status of the proposed West Paradox Project. At that meeting, which was attended by the interested water users of Paradox Valley along with staff members of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Soil Conservation Service, it was decided that the next step necessary was a latter of intent from the water users stating that they wished to proceed. Mr. G. E. McCrimmon, Assistant State Conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service, had previously stated at this meeting that the Soil Conservation Service had gone as far as possible in the prelLieinary phases of this project without assurance that the people: would organize legally and that they could finance the project. On January 18, 1965, Mr. Otho Ayers, President of the Paradox Valley Canal and Reservoir Company wrote me a letter, a copy of which is attached, indicating that at their annual meeting which was held on January 12, 1965, the stock- holders agreed that the work on the proposed project should proceed as rapidly as possible. They also expressed a willing- ness to take the necessary legal steps to enable them to contract with the United States. Since the primary feature of the proposed project is enlarging the Buckeye Reservoir owned by the Paradox Valley Canal and Reservoir Company, and since all the irrigators in- terested in this proposed project are stockholders in the Paradox Valley Canal and Reservoir Company, it is my opinion that the attached letter from ter. Ayers is sufficient to serve as the required letter of intent. in addition, Mr. Ayers has