BOARD00586

• Board Meeting Date: 4/8/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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than those involved in this particular
controversy, might undo a good deal of the
work that we have accomplished in the last
year toward a complete unity of Colorado
in water matters.

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For that reason I would suggest that
this matter should be tabled at this time
and submitted for state-wide consideratio~
so that the interests of all may be heard
in view of the fact that this would have
state-wide implications."

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MR. STAPLETON: "Mr. Williams."

MR. L. WILLIAMS: "In 1951 I think this Board passed a
resolution veiy similar to this one. Is
it necessary to reaffirm it? Ot is this
Board now repudiating that resolution that
was passed in 1951?"

MR. BARNARD, SR.: "Mr. Chairman."

MR. STAPLETON:

"Mr. Barnard."

MR. BARNARD, SR.: "May I be given an opportunity to say
a word? ,.

I think the Board is entitled to have
me representing the Colorado River Water
Conservation District, perhaps a little
more clearly and extensively, to state its
position.

It is not intending to reopen any old
sores that I say what I do say. As Mr.
Saunders has said, I agree that there has
been more progress toward state-wide unity
in the last year than in any period in the
past. I, for one, want that continued,and
extended. The Water Congress has accom-
plished a great work in my opinion. How-
ever, the Water Congress, also in my opinion,
is not the body to whom this resolution I
should be submitted. One of the foundations
of that Congress, and I plead guilty to
having insisted on it from the very start,
was that matters which were controversial
could not be considered in the Water Congress.

Going back in history as Mr. Williams
has said, in 1951 as a condition to its