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;'!'/~4 MR. I<NIGHTS: "We've had one letter from Joe and he does seem to be enjoying it. He also went up into west Pakistan, I think, and said in this letter that he contemplated visiting some places in India on his return. That's the only communication that I know of that we've had from Joe. I On our work in Region 7 in Colorado, (normally Mr. Greer would give this report but since this is his first meeting I agreed to read it for him) on the Trinidad Project first. First I might say, particularly for the audience, that there are four principal projects under the jurisdication of the Denver Development Office and those are the Trinidad, the Fryingpan-Arkansas, the Narrows and the Cache la poudre Projects. On the Trinidad Project the work is in progress on additional operation studies to describe historic water supply by ditches for the project service area. The results of these studies will be used to derive the benefits accruing to each ditch from the additional water supply made available by the project. Official notice has been received that a contract to transfer the Model storage rights to the Trini- dad Reservoir has been drawn up and signed by the Model Ditch Company and the Conservancy District. In the Conservancy District Board meeting held at Trinidad, Colorado on November 24, a resolution was adopted to accept 20,000 acre-feet as the space alloted to conservation in the Trinidad Reservoir. On the Fryingpan-Arkansas we have been very busy with a re-evaluation of the basic minimum fish flows recommended by the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife. In a meeting which was, held on the 2nd of January,agreement was reached on the minimum fish flows. Using that data then, we made a water and power operation study for the period 1911 to 1957 which is in conformance with those minimum flows agreed upon and the study shows that the objective of the minimum fish flows in the Arkansas River, together with the fishery I '\,