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<br />323 <br /> <br />sidered and your office request a two year delay on <br />the Frying-Pan Arkansas Project a part of Gunnison- <br />Arkansas project. <br /> <br />/ a/ T. J. Sardy, Chairman of the <br />Board of County Commissioners". <br /> <br />Mr.. Pughe: "I have made observation yesterday morning and afternoon and <br />today I have re.ad the Hill report. I have listened to !AI'. Jex, whom I <br />have g :r:eat respect for as well as Mr. Hill, and am reminded of what hap- <br />pened in 1922. I watched this Colorado River for about 46 years and I <br />hqve worked along that river before I became a practicing lawyer. . I was <br />a member 01' the Legislature. I had been in touch with Delph Carpenter <br />and Taylor .relative to the Colorado River and I don't k.now any two men <br />in the State of Colorado at that time that had more information and know- <br />ledge relative .to the Colorado River. Early in January, 1921 I met Delph <br />Carpenter, who said he had just introduced a Bill. It was a Bill for a <br />Compact Commission. I proceeded to foster that Bill along. -We knew at <br />the time that all of: the lower basin states were clawing the high mountains <br />for water and we knew that we had to have a protection. About October 11, <br />in the Shirley Savoy Hotel, I saw. Taylor and he made this remark; he said <br />they could not get that provision incorporated into the Compact. Colo- <br />rado did not agree to it. . The other Upper states did. At that time he <br />mentioned Lee Ferry" and I found out where Lee Ferry was. We come down to <br />the Hill Report and we don I t knO\"l whether it is correct or not. We don't <br />know where he secured those figures, those stream flows and all of these <br />things. We are groping in the dark. I have observed that Colorado River, <br />driving to and from my home town, and I see now what has happened. For a <br />while the main stream of Colorado did not deplete the flow much. I notice <br />right now in the Byer Canyon there is a very small stream of water. Then <br />you get down to the Blue - if that is going to be taken out, where are we <br />going to be. I object at this time, making any recommendation on the. Hill <br />report. I don't want to say it is right. I think that the regulatory <br />storage should be put into the picture as the very first thing and then let <br />this belated request get first thing first and second thing second. ~ben <br />looking at the main stem of the Colorado, I lmow that from the Yampa and <br />the "bite very little of that water could be diverted over. A little bit <br />could, but it is mostly grass lands and there would not be any great use <br />for it. This DeBeque reservoir, we don't know what's going to happen to <br />that. When that possibility rolls around; let's get on the ball and do <br />it. <br /> <br />There are about 12,000 or 13,000 second feet of water going through Glen- <br />wood Springs. There is quite a variation even in high water. Those are <br />the things we have to take into consideration. Mr. Petry's motion was well <br />prepared, the first part of it, but I can't say that much for the second <br />part of it." <br /> <br />Mr. Bailey: "Any more comments?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />