BOARD02181

• Board Meeting Date: 7/12/1944
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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It was' moved! by Mr. Ne1solill and' seoonded by Mis a, Pointer tha
the-Directozr of ~he Board! be instruotedl to oonrer with
ofrioials'of th.Bureauof'Reol~ation and with Frank C.
Merriell, and prepare an app1ioation to the Commissioner
,of the Bureau of Reolamation" for the oreation or ~ ne~Regio
VII, with headquarters at Denver, ColoradO, and submi~ suoh
applioationto the members of the Boar~; that if suoh
applioation meets with the unanimous; approval, that the
Direotor then submit suoh applioa'tion to the Commissioner
of the Bureau of Reolamation; and that ir there is any
question oonoerning, or objeotion to, the applioation a~
proposed, then a meeting of the Board be oalled to rurther
oonsider the matter.

Upon s vote being taken, the motion was deolared unanimously passed.

Charles L. Patterson, Chief Engineer or the. Colorado Water Conservation
Board, presented an outline of a report of the Colorado Water Conservation Board
proposed for issuance oovering the wster resources of the state of Colorado, their
present development and proposed development, and inoluding related matters. The
outline of this report is hereto attaohed and made a part of these minutes.

This outline was oarefully oonsidered by the Board. certain
suggestionamade. and after a review, it was moved by Attorne
General Ire1anW and seoonded by Mr. Nelson that the Direotor
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and h is staff be
authorized to proceed with the preparation snd i ssuanoe oft
1944 report of the Colorado Wa'ter Conservation Board.

A vote being taken, the motion was deolared unanimously passed.

The meeting recessed at 5:~5 P.M. to reconvene st 10:00 A.M.. Thursday,
July 13, 1944.

Thursday - July l~, 1944

The meeting was caUed to .order at 10 ,20 A.M." July 1~, 1944 by Vice-
Chairman Chris WaUrIoh.

Nr. John Iakisoh,. engineer for the Bureau or Reo1amation in cherge of
Wheeler-Case development, ~ade a report on the presen~ status cf oonstruction
of the Manoos project in Southwestern Colorado. He explained that the stripping of
the dam site on the. Mancos' project had been oompleted exoept for the top of the
abutment; and that the oonduit- exoavs..tion had been completed. He stated that the
project was seventeen to eighteen peroent complete at the present time; but that
it would! be impo~sible to complete it durim& the presen~ year for operation. He
stated! that the man-power efficiency at the Mancos camp is lower than that E
other cocscientioua objecto~ campa and that 1~ wou~ be neoessary to hire some
skilled labor. He said that the project must be oompleted before 1946,to meet the
qualifications of the War Food Program.

Direotor Stone then explained! that a meeting of the Committee of Sixteen,
Colorado River Basin would be held at Reno, Nevada on July 20-21, 1944, for the
purpose of considering the plan of the Bureau of Reclamation for the comprehensiv~
development of the Colorado River Basin. He stated that the Bommissioner of the.
Bureau ('If Reol>1ll1!ition had ordered that the o'Ver-alll oomprehensiv8l plan be submitted:>