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<br />,~) <br /> <br />M <br /><:'1 <br />C <br />C""; <br /> <br />-10- <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />dollars in flood control authorizations that have been handed to the State <br /> <br />of California in the past five years for flood control and not a dollar of <br /> <br />it is reimbursable. Fantastic? Why not include the ~3,800,000 that will <br /> <br />eventually go into California's Central Valley Rescue Project, The Great <br /> <br />San Joaquin Valley, the development in that area. Did the members of our <br /> <br /> <br />respective delegations call these projects fantastic and vote against them? <br /> <br />Indeed, they did not. If they had and they ~ad applied the political <br /> <br />power to it that California has applied to the position that she occupies <br /> <br />today, there wouldn't be any Central Valley Project. They supported these <br /> <br />projects, because they know what water means to a state, and they just <br /> <br />don't happen to be greedy enough to swallow anything and everything that <br /> <br />they can lay their grasping hands on. <br /> <br />We know what water means. We have had probably as much experience <br /> <br />in the field as any other single group in the United'States. We have been <br /> <br />pioneers in the field of reclamation. <br /> <br />With $10,000,000 of reclamation <br /> <br />money loaned to us on a pay-it-b~ck basis, just as we plan to handle the <br /> <br />next project on our list, we struck out on the then largest and most ex- <br /> <br />pensive irrigation project ever attempted. Another $40,000,000 has been <br /> <br />added to the investment since. You have found the results of the invest- <br /> <br />ment if you have ever been in Arizon'l, one of the most beautifully pro- <br /> <br />ductive of all of the areas that you could possibly reach for, and we are <br /> <br />away ahead on the reimbursement payments that we are allotted to the <br /> <br />Federal Government. Fantastic? It was thought so at the time. It was <br /> <br />the first of the reclamation projects, and maybe you think it didn't sound <br /> <br />like a silly dream. It worked, though. That's the point that is important, <br />