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<br />29 <br /> <br />1n !lsking for eOllt"th1ng on the Gunnison. It f'1 t9 in loglca1.l1 <br />when you oOns1der the power area. Apowel" market served w:l.'th <br />a t:r-anem1esiOn 11M Just dangling out there by ltse1f--lt has <br />to be tied in wtth eOllleth1ng.' Now. lb. Hughes ea1dwe didl1"t <br />have definite plans. "That 1s true. In 1949 we showed a plan <br />ot development in our report. It coneisted of three d~s: It <br />consisted of Ourooant1, the Orystal on the Blaok Oenon, and the <br />Bridgeport. Those three reeervoirs had 3,890,000 acre f~ell,' a <br />maximum power heaa of 2,375 feet, p~d a ~ombined powerlnstal- <br />1at101\ of 329,000 kilowatts. <br />That Was the report Oolorado re~iewed. Following the re- <br />oeipt of the COlIllllente, we reV1~n"ed the s1tulltlon again: and OlU' <br />th1nking a year later, that ls, 1n Maroh, 1900, wns to not touoh <br />the Ourecnnti or to not ohange the Brldgeport,but we did m~e <br />a modltic~t16n of the Black Oanon, to mak~ two power drope. We <br />know there 9.1'e lote of pos"l1bllities and there 18 a canOn there. <br />From th"; stAnd.point of tr1o\.lto.r" storage, the Bureeu haa _de <br />SOllle pxoe1,lmlnary investigat10n of that,. In oonnection Ylththe <br />lnvestig~tlon ot the Gunnison-Arkansas proJeot, as I reoall, at <br />one time when we were 1nventorying possibilities, it wag' con- <br />ceived that there oould be some storage on the Gunnison lUTer, <br />some etorage on Lake Fork, some storage on Savoy Creek, and <br />some pump oreeks, so there might be a m111ion aore feet taken <br />acroes the hills. <br />As the result of those stud1es which I call of a recon- <br />