BOARD01477

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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conjunction. There are a few that have wells
only, but I would say they would be in the
minority. The large share have both surface
and well rights. The wells, as far as being
able to pump them directly into a canal from
a measurement standpoint, I can see where we
might need that seven or nine engineers down I
there in the Valley trying to f~gure out how
much flow is coming out of each of those
wells, There are a lot of pipelines into
the canal that they have their surface rights
urider.

Basically I think it is a step in the
right direction to get the wells adjudicated
and tied in with the surface rights so that
we can look at it and see where we go from
there.

Thank you."

MR. KROEGER:

"Thank you, Hugh.

I think we have taken a rather long
amount of time in discussing this among the
Board. There are still a few that should
be heard from, but I feel that with a single
agenda item and the matter of arriving at
some agreement in the principle of this water
legislation, that this is worthwhile. As is
often the case we have a tremendously long
agenda, but today we have but the one item
and we will go ahead and pursue the thing.

George, representing Ben, do you have
any comments you'd care to make at this
time?"

MR. ZOELLNER:

"Every lawyer always has a comment to
make, even though he is the junior member
of the firm that will abdicate tomorrow. I
didn't realize that we were perhaps as close
to a compromise as has been suggested this
morning. I would advocate that principle,
of course, of compromise and if we are as

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