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<br />83 <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order by Vice-Chairman George J. Bailey at <br />10:15 a.m. He announced that the meeting of the Board had been called for <br />the main purpose of considering an interim administrative set-up for the Colo- <br />rado Water Conservation Board due to the sudden death of its Director and <br />Secretary, Judge Clifford H. Stone, on October 22, 1952. <br /> <br />Vice-Chairman Bailey announced that the first order of busi.ness would <br />be the selection of a Secretary. Considerable discussion of Sections 4 and <br />8 of the Act creating the Colorado Water Conservation Board, regarding the <br />selection of a Director and Secretary to the Board, followed. <br /> <br />After further discussion, it was decided that selection of a Secre- <br />.tary would have to be dellWed until action was taken on the appointment of <br />a Director. It was suggested that a reporter be appointed for the purpose <br />of taking the proceedings of the meeting in order that they might be put in <br />the record. Mr. Bailey then asked Patricia Murphy, Stenographer for the <br />Board, to take the notes of the meeting. <br /> <br />Dan Hunter read a resolution adopted by the Montezuma Valley Irri- <br />gation Company. <br /> <br />After discussion, it was moved by Dan Hunter and seconded <br />by C. J. Y::Cormick that the Board approve the resolution adopted <br />by the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company and urge that the Bur- <br />eau of Reclamation take all steps necessarY to carry out the re- <br />solution. <br /> <br />On vote being taken, the motion carried unanimously and the <br />resolution was approved as follows: <br /> <br />WHFBEAS, a large portion of lands in Montezuma County, Colo- <br />rado, are non-productive without Irrigation, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Dolores River and its tributaries is the source <br />of waters for irrigation and domestic and other uses, and <br /> <br />~1illREAS, the flow of water in the Dolores river varies and a <br />constant supply of water can only be secured by storage reservoirs, <br />and <br />\~S, the present available storage reservoirs are insuf- <br />ficient in size to insure an adequate supply of water for irrigation <br />and other purposes, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the only major storage available, Groundhog Reservoir, <br />stores water from a run-off from a limited area only, and cannot be <br />filled each year, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, there is sufficient water in the Dolores River to pro- <br />vide for all necessary irrigation and domestic and other purposes, if <br />additional storage were provided in such location that the same could <br />always be filled during run-off season, and <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />