BOARD00158

• Board Meeting Date: 12/12/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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just letting them take it. I hopefully see some signs of change and
some signs that the Congress is beginning to assert itself a little
more strongly. I don't see as many signs as I would like to see.

Mr. Kroeqer: Ben, I want to ask a couple more questions, if I can.
First of all, I hate to get involved in wild rumors, but you con-
stantly hear that the problems of the lower Colorado and Mexico are
not those of the poor Mexicans, but those of American controlled
agriculture in Mexico. Is there a way to put that thing to rest? Is
that so, or isn't it so? I keep hearing that the people that moved
on down the Colorado River for various reasons, labor and other
reasons, and it is our own American interests that are getting us
into all this trouble and not the Mexican people that created it.

Mr. Moses: I would like to answer that with another rumor. The
largest cotton producer in the Mexicali Valley is the Anderson Clayton
Company out of Texas. I think that is a fact.

11r. Kroeqer: They are also a major contributor, I think, to the
Mixon Fund, aren't they?

Mr. Moses: I don't know.

~tr. Kroeqer: I read it in the paper.

Mr. Moses: I don't know that.

Mr. S.tapleton: Is there any further discussion on this item?

Mr. Kroeqer: Yes. Is this LaVerkin Springs the one that is the
sacred pool for the ~ndians over there?

Mr. Moses: That is Blue Springs.

Mr. Kroeqer: Why can't things like LaVerkin Springs be accomplished
in the same manner that you propose to do with Paradox? Just diverting
some of these badly saline waters and evaporating them in a natural
basin.

Mr. Moses: Didn't John Maletic show us some pictures of LaVerkin
Springs, or was that some other meeting I went to?

Mr. Sparks: Yes. LaVerkin Springs produces a substantial quantity
of water for one thing.

Mr. Kroeqer: It indicates here eleven and a half second feet.

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