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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />people who wrote that report had to buy hay today at $70 a ton. <br /> <br />Mr. Stanleton: Are there any further questions from members of the <br />board on the Savery-Pot Hook? Do any members of the audience have any <br />questions? Darwin, thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Goldsmith: I would like to make a statement. The only disagreement <br />we have with this gentleman's presentation is his intention that he <br />couldn't make an elaborate statement, otherwise we endorsed everything <br />he said. <br /> <br />Mr. Dunn: Thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Thank you, Darwin. Rollie Fischer will give us the <br />West Divide presentation, please. <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: Mr. Chairman, I would like t~ preface my remarks to point <br />out that today I would like to wear the River District hat and the <br />West Divide hat. We do have two gentlemen here from the area of the <br />West Divide, Mr. Milt Nichols and Mr. Carl Bernklau. I would like to <br />call on both of these gentlemen, if I may, after I make some initial <br />remarks. <br /> <br />First of all, we agree with Mike Young and Bill Raley that we would like <br />to urge this board to urge upon the congressional delegation and the <br />Administration that these five projects have to go down the road together. <br />I would like to comment that the West Divide and the River District <br />would like to urge that West Divide be requested for funding in fiscal <br />1974. We think that this is a very important matter. We think also <br />that the statute which Felix helped write is very clear and I would like <br />to quote from just one or two sentences of 50l(b). "The Secretary is <br />directed to proceed as nearly as practicable with the construction of <br />the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, and San Miguel <br />participating federal reclamation projects concurrently with the con- <br />struction of the Central Arizona Project, to the end that such projects <br />shall be completed not later than the date of the first delivery of <br />water from said Central Arizona Project. . ." <br /> <br />It is happening as Felix has pointed out, that perhaps the Central <br />Arizona is not as far ahead as we might fear, but we'thinkthat.in the <br />vei:yc.near future with California and Arizona having much more represen- <br />tation in the United States Cong;essthan colorado does that the problem <br />could become very, very real. . <br /> <br />-70- <br />