BOARD00822

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

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the adverse effect it might have on their business.
If manifestations of local opinion in the future are
preponderantly in favor of affording recognition to
Judge Stone, we believe it would be more appropriate to
rename ?~anby Dam or Pumping Plant in his honor.
We trust this summary of the current situation will
be adequate for your purposes. Please let us know if
we can give further assistance in this matter.

Hon. Eugene D. Millikin
United States Senate
Washington 25, D. C.

Copy to: Mr. William E. Welsh, Secretary Manager
National Reclamation Association
1119 National Press Building
Washington, D. e.

Sincerely yours,
(sgd)
Fred G. Aandahl
Assistant Secretary for
Water and Power Development

IN MEMORlA}! - CLIFFORD H. STONE

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WHEREAS by the untimely death of Clifford H. Stone, the
first and sole Director of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board, Colorado has lost one of her most influential native-
born sons, who brought the State great honor by his conduct of
his office, and who accomplished great and lasting progress
in the use of her water resource, and in relations
with neighbor states, and -
WHEREAS at the beginning of his tenure of office, some fifteen
years ago, Colorado was the most backward of all Western
States in increasing water use; almost nothing had been done
for twenty years, and the Bureau of Reclamation had almost
cea5ed to function within the State, and
WHEREAS during his administration of the Water Board many
projects, large and small, were actually bucilt, both by
rederal agencies and by private initative, so th~t the
expenditure therefore exceeded two hundred millions of
dollars, and .
WHEREAS even this large physical program. did not, by any
means, embrace all Judge Stone's activities but at the same