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<br />MR. KUIPER: You're in the Fox Hills area? <br /> <br />MR. DENTON: That's right. We've got a new process on these wells and <br />there was one drilled in the area :to the east. We found a new way' to -. <br />get water up more - you know, it's a long way up. It's very expensive <br />and we've used small six and eight-inch wells. And now we've found <br />there's a new way that we can go up to a fifteen-inch well with about I <br />a twelve-inch casing, and we can almost triple the'amount of water we <br />can get tp the surface for about the same amount of cost. ' The cost of ' <br />the wells in those days were about eighty-five hundred and they're <br />about fifty thousand today. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETpN: Any further questions? <br /> <br />. (No response.) <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON:'. Thank you very mUch. <br /> <br />. <br />I will entertain a motion to approve the ,Keenesburg project. <br /> <br />MR. BENTON: I so move. <br /> <br />MR. JACKSON: Second. <br /> <br />MR; STAPLETON: It's been regularly moved and ,seconded. All those in <br />favor, signify by saying "Aye."- <br /> <br />(Unanimous "Ayes.") <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Opposed? <br />(No response.) <br />It's approved. <br /> <br />. <br />I think we'll skip the Winter ,Park project ,for the moment. :I.didn't <br />know that we would be proceeding so expeditiously. I.told them that ,we <br />could hear them at two o'clock because they had a few people that they <br />had to.gather around. So we~lljust overlook ,Winter ,park for the present <br />and go to Overland. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: This is an irrigation~roject in Delta County near the town <br />of Hotchkiss. The Overland people have had a great deal of grief with <br />their reservoir. They are very heavily indebted on their system. It <br />irrigates some of the best farmland in Delta County on the,Redlands. I <br />Mesa and adjacent area. They have had a partial failure of an existing <br />reservoir, and as a result, they have had to greatly reduce the capacity. <br />It I S worked a tremendous hardship upon the farmers, in that area in tl:)at <br />their water supply has been greatly reduced. They really have to <br />scratch now to keep their heads above water financially. <br /> <br />Those people have been working for some fifteen years that I know of to <br />try to solve the problem. The Bureau of Reclamation has indicated tl:)at <br />it would be willing to put this project in a high category for a small <br /> <br />-30- <br />