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<br />'., <br /> <br />['-' <br />...~ <br />C <br />I "" <br />IL, <br />G <br /> <br />- 4 - <br /> <br />In essence -- and I'm summarizing now that which you have already <br /> <br />heard -- in essence, California would persuade you and us to give up <br /> <br />major phases of our agricultural development in exchange for power and <br /> <br />industry. Now that raises a question, "Is that good?". Let's look at <br /> <br />the 3tate of Nevada for just a moment. With power to throw to the birds, <br /> <br />from Boulder right in their own front yard, the State of Nevada still <br /> <br />has been unable to develop an industrial economy. Without a water- <br /> <br />sustained, supported and guaranteed economy, there can be no Pennsylvanias <br /> <br />in the West -- anywhere in the West, and we may as well recognize that <br /> <br />fact right here and now, because it concerns us very, very vitally. Utah, <br /> <br />as well as Arizona, cannot hope to preserve its agricultural economy with- <br /> <br />out Colorado River water, nor can this water be drawn and placed on such <br /> <br />projects as your Central Utah and Virgin without making full use of the <br /> <br />established reclamation principle of letting commercial power bear part <br /> <br />of the tremendous cost of such an operation. Now California isn't putting <br /> <br />all of her eggs in one basket by any kind of means. She is playing both <br /> <br />ends against the middle for her own good, and if it means chopping your <br /> <br />head off, well enough. If it mBans chopping ours off, well enough. If it <br /> <br />means chopping off anybody' s, well enough, because they want fundamentally <br /> <br />power, they want fundamentally water, and if they can persuade you that <br /> <br />the development of an industrial empire in this section is a possibility, <br /> <br />if you will forego your water, then she can ultimately secure for herself <br /> <br />the power that she wants while the water that you would otherwise use will <br /> <br />be running down the Colorado for such use as she m~ care to make of it. <br /> <br />So we're in the middle of a life-and-death struggle that finds one state <br />