BOARD00822

• Board Meeting Date: 4/27/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Mr. Breitenstein said, "Certainly, so far as we I"
people who live in the San Juan Basin are concerned"they
have been very cooperative with New Mexico, and I
personally would certainly not wish to do anything that
would have a tendency to make those people become averse
to us. Try to work together and get along together. State
line ~hould not cause a division in projects which interest
both Colorado and New Me~i"co. . I think Mr. Riter's suggestion
is very acceptable to me. We must negotiate with New Mexico."

Mr. Dille seconded'the motion that Mr. Crawford
write to New Mexico re~arding its views with respect to
the La Plata-Animas Project.

The motion was unanimously c~Iried.

Mr. Bailey introduced Mr. John Goeffrey Will, Attorney
for the Upper Colorado River Commission to express his
views with regard to aqtivities of the Commission.

Mr. Will made.the following statement: "I think
that this Board is entitled to a report from me regarding
the activities of the Commission. In view of the Board's
demonstrated intere~t in the Colorado River Storage Project,
I have just returned from spending a few days in Washington
to attempt to find out the status of the Colorado River "
Storage Project in the Department of the Interior. In that
connection I had conferences with Asst." Secretary Arndahl
and a number of other officials of the Department. As a
result of those conferences I am very encouraged. . I don't
like to make predictions - presUmptuous to make them, but
I can go out on a limb and say that in my judgment the report
of the Department of the Interior on that project will be
released within two weeks to the Bureau of "the Budget. While
r was in Washington r had the opportunity to note, superficially
of course, because time was limited, the figures of the reduced
appropriations for the functions of the Bureau of Reclamation
in the West, recommended by the Interior Sub-committee of the
House Committee on Appropriations. Now r know, of course,
that annually at about this time we are accustomed to 1
receiving the report of the Interior Sub-committee of the
House Committee on Appropriations in regard to cutting on
expenditures and consequently on programs for the 17 western
states. But of course we are accustomed, too, to relaxing
a bit, realizing that the true friends of the West, and you
understand of course that I am speaking from a non-partisan
point of vie~ tqe tr.ue friend of the West, ~ho~e who understand