BOARD00736

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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act of signing that bill made possible what up
to then had been merely a dream by Western Colo-
rado. That was that there would come into exist-
ence a means whereby we could irrigate arid acres
on our side of the mountains. The Board of I,
'Directors of the Colorado River Water Conserva-
tion District considers it to be its duty to the
people for whom it acts, to take such steps as
may be necessary, within the limits of the law,
to make available supplies of water for those
badly needed projects.

I meant to say at the outset and I will Sqy
it now, I do not propose to say one word on the
merits of this controversy. I do not want to
stress what I consider to be the merits of our
side of it or to minimize the merits of the other
side. I merely say I never saw a flapjack yet
that did not have two sides to it and I never saw
one that was fried on one side only. I have long
felt, and I think I have so expressed myself on
different occasions, that quite possibly one of
the things that is wrong with the relationship
between Eastern and Western Colorado is that there
has been a lack of coordination between develop-
ments desired there and developments desired here.

The position of the Colorado River Water
Conservation District, I think, is well summarized
in Judge Hughes' motion that they are thoroughly
conscious, keenly conscious, of our obligations
and we are always thoroughly, keenly conscious of
our responsibilities.

From here on out - I speak for myself largely
when I say that - it has long been in my mind that
while back in the late forties and early fifties
there was extended discussion, days and days of
discussion, between people in the Arkansas Valley,
and not only in the Arkansas Valley, but people
in Eastern Colorado and Western Colorado, conCern-
ing the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, there has been
. no change in our status Over here and I feel per- 1
sonally that the conversations, the discussions,
the conferences, comprehended in Judge Hughes'
motion, can quite probably lead to a solution of
this thing so the development in Eastern Colorqdo
and the Arkansas Valley can be correlated and co-
ordinated with ours. If I am wrong, then we will