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~.LOU been very patient with the fcur divisicns on the western slcpe cf Colcradc for the use cf water. We think we have been patient. We've suppcrted everybody; we've supported the scuth western District, the main stream, the Gunni- son. We've seen a lot cf constructicn wcrk on I each one of these and we haven't had any con- structicn wcrk in the Yampa41hite area with the exception of the one project, the wyoming- Colorado project, which we are very grateful has made considerable headway, but we think that that district up there is entitled tc a square deal in the development cf the water of the Upper Colorado River. At the time when the ccmpact was drawn I cbjected tc this diversion of five millicn acre-feet until it was explained tc me that that wculd insure a reservcir at Cress Mcuntain cr Juniper; that it was unthinkable that \Ole cculd deliver that much water tc Utah without a reservcir, withcut a dam. Cliffcrd stone was handling the matter, and a fairer man never lived than Cliffcrd stene. Ycu would never get the ccmpact thrcugh unless this five mil lien acre-feet in each ten year period had tc be assumed and it was assumed by the Upper Basin in crder tc get the ccmpact thrcugh. We think new to abandcn Juniper, in the face of that pledge and in the face cf the conditicns which I have menticned, would be just cut cf the questicn. And to tell us that we don't have any water for Juniper is pretty aggravating." MR. CRANDALL: "Well, Gcverncr, let me say I had no inten- ticn of expressing a ccn~lusion tc that effect. I was merely trying to express that there was a general bread ccnsideraticn within the upper Basin cf fitting more cppcrtunities to use I water cverall than there was water supply avail- able. I think it is generally acknc\Olledged that is the case and I certainly had no inten- tion cf singling cut Juniper cr any other project in Cclcrado cr in any other state, say- ing that this one s~all net pe built and this