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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />;d <br /> <br />--Q <br />te;r " <br /> <br />0669 <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />by the Secretary of the Interior. Under P1iA regulations all <br /> <br />that was now needed was the signature of the president, Franklin <br /> <br />Roosevelt. <br /> <br />M-r, Hoag, very enthusiast Ie over t he prospects of such <br /> <br />an event, wrote a story on the projct and pUblished it in the <br /> <br />Pueblo neWspaper. The story, however, was read in Gunnison by <br /> <br /> <br />Henry Lake, publisher of the Gunnison newspaper and very influ- <br /> <br />ential in water mat-~ers. Lake was very displeased over the pros- <br /> <br />peets of Gunnison losing water and telephoned his good friend <br /> <br />Ed Taylor. Representative, ,of the fourth Congressional District, <br />and Chairman of the House Appropriations COllJll!i't;tee. Af'~er dis- <br />cussing the matter with Lake, Taylor went to the :-lhite House and <br />13 <br />had the project stopped, the president vetoed the application. <br />Continued activity by the Arkansas Valley people in <br />1936 and 1937 resulted in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation allo- <br />cating funds for surveys and investigations to determine the <br />actual need for additional water in the Arkansas valley. This <br />investigation covered soil analysis, stI'eam flows, irrigated land <br />, 14 <br />but no investigation was made into Western Colorado. <br />In their mOIl e toward supplemental water for the Arkan- <br /> <br />sas <br /> <br />valley, the proponents of the project had many problems of <br /> <br />course, The following are problems which kept occurring to slow <br /> <br /> <br />down the work and detered the projoct the most. <br /> <br />13 <br />Hoag, pp. 128. 129. <br />14 <br />Christy, p. 42. <br />