BOARD00146

• Board Meeting Date: 12/30/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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some way that this can be solved. I have studied these
reports and get the same answer all the time. There is
plenty of water for Denver. I have never,talked to anyone I
from the Western Slope yet that does not think we can iron
out our differences. There must be some way that rational
answer can be derived from this problem. We are certainly rJ -_
ready to seiye our problems along those lines. _

"The Hill report is a good report, prepared very thoroughly
with all the assistance that will ever be available for any
report. If we can't get people together from the Western
Slope and Eastern Slope to solve this, we are never going
to solve it. The water problem effects everyone in the
State. The size of the problem is frightening to me when
I think of the action that we take may hinder progress in
this State for one hundred years. You gentlemen voted
eight to four in favor of the Hill Report. The four dissenting
votes' were from the Western Slope. The State of Colorado
if united, could probably gain more from the Federal
Government and other sources now than ever'- before
in history. How can you get people to sit down from
both sides and look the situation over and make a recommendation?"

Mr. Bailey: "Thank you, Mr. Petry. One of the big things
in the future is the industrial development on the Western
Slope. That is the biggest thing that will happen to the
State of Colorado. It will bring millions of dollars to
the State. Certainly we can't let anything interfere with
that. This Board has to justify its ~xistence by arriving
at some conclusion. We can't just toss it out of the
window."

Mr. Roberts: "It seems to me that the draft of the suggested
letter that Mr. Breitenstein brought to us is probably quite
a disinterested draft. On this basis, we should get together.
It also comes from a source that this is about the most we can
ask -for. The request made on this Board is not particularly
onerous. That draft or letter merely asks of us three things,
as a supplement to the resolution that this Board adopted at
it last meeting in December."

Mr. Roberts suggested that Paragraphs ~ and 8 of the
Findings and Recommendations adopted by the Board at its
December 11th meeting be changed to read:

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