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321 voir 22, now in process of construction on South Boulder Creek, and certain other related facilities, all this water will be available to her; and that will come to pass long before 1963. Based upon Denver's own formula for per capita use, this will supply a city with e population of 777,500, roughly 50% more people than Denver nmv claims to have. I Denver says that, by the year 2000, her population will reach one million. Let.us aSSume the accuracy of that estimate. Denver demands that, in addition to her present water supply, she be permitted to take from the Blue River a minimum of 177,000 acre feet. Again using Denver's own formula of per capita consumption, that amount would supply a population of 750,000 people. Thus Denver, with enough water for a city with a population 50% greater than she now has, states that the emergency she faces is so grave and dire 'that your Board should now make it possible for her to supply a city three times her present size. This is the emergency she says justified your endangering the livelihoods and futures of the citizens of two counties, by proceeding without that reliable, adequate information which prudent men must re- quire if they are to meet their responsibilities as repre- sentatives of all the people. The chief executive has said, through the press, that he will take this controversy to the people, if a satisfactory compromise settlement be not reached by the participants. Let that be done; but let all the facts, including those herein related, be taken to the people. Denver, through a statement credited by the press to the mayor, states that she is willing, if her own water needs be met, to compromise, I assume by letting water users in Grand and Summit Counties use the water that is left, if there is any. Denver measures her needs by her demands. She has never receded one inch from her demand for a minimum (and I use that term advisedly) of 177,000 acre ,feet. Vrere Denver's needs only to be met, not her arbi- trary demands, it is possible that there would come into existence some area of agreement. Until that time arrives, our only course is to resist Denver's demands, as Mr. De- laney has said, wherever opposition thereto seems appropri- ate.n Mr. Bailey: "Bob, do you want Mr. Jex to make his presentation Or any other statements?" I .Mr. Jex: "I am a relatively junior man in water matters. Some eight years ago the Water Board, its Chief engineer, its Engineering staff and also we people in Western Colorado felt that we had a large water supply to be used in the' State of Colo- rado. It was indicated at that time, only eight years ago, that there was a possibility of making a diversion from the Gunnison River to the Arkansas Valley of about 850,000 acre-feet.