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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. Me CANDLESS: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />MR. MC CANDLESS: <br /> <br />Resources. I immediately wrote Congressman <br />Aspinall stating that we had no knowledge of <br />the proposed contract, but since the proposed <br />project conceivably would involve other projects <br />over which this Board had some jurisdiction in <br />the planning stage, we felt that it was necessary <br />that the Bureau of Reclamation submit such plans <br />to us in order that we could evaluate the Elliott <br />plan in connection with other projects that we <br />have under contemplation in the Yampa River <br />drainage. <br /> <br />So the Commissioner of Reclamation, evidently <br />then, instructed Region 7 that in the future, <br />when any transportation of water was involved <br />through the facilities of the Colorado-Big Thomp- <br />son that this Board should be consulted. We, in <br />effect. invited this consultation to be sure that <br />nothing was done which' would prejudice the proj- <br />ects that we have presently under study. This <br />was a courtesy matter and, as I say, I invited <br />this type of submission to us as a result of the <br />Elliott proposal." <br /> <br />"It's probably a matter of meeting the re- <br />quirements of the present laws but I'm getting so <br />I resent anything of this kind. ~'1hen the water <br />leaves the western slope this place that has the <br />right to this water will be a desert with no <br />water to go onto it. Also there is the value of <br />runoff of this water to the ~ople surrounding <br />the place and the evaporation that leaves the <br />western slope of this water. T~en it goes across <br />the mountains it's gone forever. There's a possi- <br />bility that the people on the western slope will <br />sell all their water and the whole slope be a <br />desert. " <br /> <br />"vIe assume <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />"Just a minute. This Elliott has this other <br />up there to take waters out of the headwaters of <br />the Yampa and take it across into North Park and <br />so on. Of course, Mr. Barnard, before he died, <br />figured that he had that stymied when he filed <br />on the water for the Juniper Mountain Dam - that <br />the Juniper Mountain would take all of the <br />