WSP04332

• File Number: 8221.112
• Description: Central Arizona Project
• State: AZ
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 4/27/1951
• Title: Address of Honorable Howard Pyle - Governor of the State of Arizona - Before the Salt Lake City Junior Chamber of Commerce on the Development of the Colorado River
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR PYLE

Thank you very much, Elder Stapley. Thanks to you gentlemen

for a very cordial reception. It r s nice to be in 3alt Lake on a

mission of this kind. My interest in the problem at hand, I suppose,

is about as keen as such interest can be, simply because it is the

very life of my State for which we are fighting. I sometimes wish

that all our problems could be as easily dissolved as was a problem for

a Texas cowboy who must have been a liepublican to be so resourceful.

He was riding his horse across a considerable stretch of country. The

animal tired and as a result, he peeled the saddle off of it, and

tethered it for a time to browse a bit and rest, and he crawled under

a tree and took a nap. When he awakened, there was a big diamond-backed

rattler coiled up on his chest with its head right under his chin. Now,

how would you suppose he got out of that delimma? He just went back to

sleep, and when he woke up, it was gone.

If I thought we could fix this Colorado River problem that

simply, Mr. Jensen, I'd subscribe to a long Rip Van Winkle slumber for

all of us. Getting down to the meat of it all, I believe that there is

no such thing as a valid reason for setting one part of this great

country against another, any more than there is reason for setting popu-

lation groups one against the other as has been done in recent years, to

the very great detriment of the country's general good. What I mean

by this is that our problems are your problems, and they are not only

your problems, but they are the problems of aLl the related states in

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