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<br />.~ .* <br />l. ~. J <br /> <br />Lt <br /> <br />by the Secretary of the Interior. Unaer P~A reGulations al~ <br /> <br />that was now needed was the signature of the prosident, Fra,nklin <br /> <br />Roosevel'C. <br /> <br />y <br /> <br />M't'. Ho9.c;, very enthu:JiastiG over t..o prospect[; 01' [;uch <br /> <br />an event, wrote a story on the projx:t and pub~ish0d it in the <br /> <br />.1 'ih Pueblo newspaper. rho story J howevor, \.[:lS rOD.'l in Gun:li son b;r <br /> <br />~_ Henry Lake, publisher of the Gunnison newspapor and very i1".[1u- <br /> <br />ential in water matters. Lake was very displcQsed over the pros- <br /> <br />pects of G~~ison losing water and telephoned his sood friend <br /> <br />Ed Taylor, Represer'.tative of the fourtn Coneression8.l Dist:'iot, <br /> <br />and Chairman of thE' House Appropriations Cornrni1;t.ee. After dis- <br />cussing the matter with Lake, Taylor Hnnt. to the ':(hite House and <br />13 <br />r had the project stopped, the prosident vetoed the application. <br />Continued activity by the Arkansas Valley pcople in <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />"l <br /> <br />1936 and 1937 resulted in the U.S. Bureau of ReclaJ1lation a11o- <br /> <br />eating funds for surveys und investiGations to de'Cermine the <br /> <br />actual need for additional water in tho Arkansas Valley. This <br /> <br />investigation covered soil <br /> <br />analysis, strcalll flows, irrigateu <br />14 <br />investigation was J1lade into Hestern Colorado. <br /> <br />land <br /> <br />~d <br /> <br />but no <br /> <br /> <br />In their J1l0l e toward suppleJ1lcntal "ateI' for the Arlea:1- <br /> <br />sas valley J the proponents of the project had man;i problems of <br /> <br />course. The following aro problems Hhich Ieopt occurring to 810H <br /> <br />down the work and detered tho proj~ct the most. <br /> <br />13 <br />Hoae, pp. 128. 129. <br />14 <br />Chri sty, p. L~2. <br />