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<br />of government--one without any freedoms." <br />Congressman Johnson also said more recla- <br />mation projects must be completed if West <br />is to play role in feedina nation and world. <br />He said water from Colora 0 is one of keys <br />to how rapidly and how broadly we develop <br />energy resources. flWe cannot match numbers <br />with the non-reclamation eastern states," he <br />said, "but it has been demonstrated very <br />effectively in the past that benefits to the <br />West can be benefits to the nation. We must <br />continue to send that message." He said he <br />first learned the value of storing and using <br />water with timely reclamation projects in his <br />original home area of Lubbock and Muleshoe, <br />Texas. "That' s where we had to irrigate the <br />rivers to keep them from blowing away." <br />Commissioner Stamm said Bureau study results <br />on water needed for coal and oil show "it will <br />take an extraordinary effort to stretch the <br />limited water supply in the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin to meet spiraling demand for water <br />for man's food, fiber and domestic needs." He <br />said 870,000 acre-feet of water annually will <br />be needed in states of Wyoming, Colorado and <br />Utah for energy development projects, whether <br />it be coal-fired electric generating plants, <br />oil shale retort operations or coal gasifi- <br />cation plants. "The competing uses for water <br />could result in significant shortages by the <br />year 2000," Stamm said. But he added that the <br />problems are not insurmountable and there's <br />hope of meeting demand with such new develop- <br />ments as cloud seeding and technological <br />improvements in water use. CRWUA, in urging <br />President Gerald Ford to fund salinity control <br />projects this year, responded to estimates <br />from Stamm that damage from salinity was about <br />$53 million in 1973 and, without well-function- <br />ing control projects, could reach a~out $124 <br />million annually by year 2000. ProJects out- <br />lined in the Colorado River Basin Salinity <br />Control Act passed last year include those in <br />Paradox and Grand valleys of Colorado, Crystal <br />Geyser area of Utah, Las Vegas Wash in Nevada <br />and world's largest desalting plant near t~e <br />United States-Mexico border to assure qual~ty <br />water deliveries to Mexico. CRWUA warned that <br />massive litigation could result between states, <br />water users and federal government if currently <br />proposed federal water rights legislation.is. <br />enacted. That legislation is based on prlnc~ple <br />that federal government originally had interes~s <br />in water on all public owned lands. The aSSOCl- <br />ation said rights and interests of each of the <br />seven basin states must be fully protected. <br />Colorado River Water Users Association has <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br />",. <br />~~ <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />Now a sunken relic at Lee's Ferry on Colorado <br />River, the 92-foot-long Charles Hw Spencer was <br />largest craft ever floated on river above Grand <br />Canyon. Steamboat made only about five trips <br />28 miles north from ferry site to pick up coal. <br />The coal was to be used to fire boilers in ill- <br />fated gold sluicing operation. Lee's Ferry is <br />dividing line between upper and lower Colorado <br />River basins under 1922 compact. Photo, taken <br />in 1912, courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. <br /> <br /> <br />I <br />~ <br />~. <br /> <br />Warren Butler <br /> <br /> <br />t <br />././'- I <br />L::.{ _) <br /> <br />D. V. Beauchamp <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~ <br />,- <br /> <br />.- <br /> <br />"-'" <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />Allen B. Griffin <br /> <br />available in quantity brochure, "Water Giant," <br />describing purposes of CRWUA and identifying <br />problems common to seven Colorado Riv7r.Basin <br />States. Copies may be obtained by wr1tlng <br />CRWUA at P.O. Box 1748, Las Vegas, Nev. <br /> <br />Butler named to Colorado River Board <br /> <br />Warren W. Butler, chairman of Board of <br />Directors of Metropolitan Water District of <br />Southern California, has been named to Colo- <br />rado River Board of California by Governor <br />Ronald Reagan. A retired newspaperman, <br />Butler served as managing editor of ten Herald- <br />American newspapers in south central Los <br />Angeles County for 21 years before his retire- <br />ment in 1957. He still writes a column for <br />newspapers. He represents City of Compton on <br />MWD board of directors....Two Imperial Valley, <br />Calif. farmer-businessmen, D. V. Beauchamp, <br />of Calipatria, and Allen B. Griffin, of <br />Brawley, have been appointed to board of <br />directors of Colorado River Association, <br />Franklin Stockbridge, CRA president, announced. <br />Association is citizens group organized to <br />safeguard California's interests in water and <br />power resources of Colorado River. Beauchamp, <br />who graduated in accounting from California <br />Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo, is <br />president of Calipatria Unified School District <br />board. He is vice president of National Farm <br />Organization and district committeeman of u. S. <br />Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation <br />Board of Imperial County. Griffin has been <br />farmer for 40 years in Imperial County, grow- <br />ing such crops as sugar beets, alfalfa and <br />cotton. He is executive director of Calcott, <br />Ltd., statewide cotton cooperative, and member <br />of National Cotton Board. ...Navajos see 10 <br />years of litigation ahead to "get back water <br />rights" in what Tribal Chairman Peter MacDonald <br />said will be the "biggest battle the Southwest <br />has seen since the 1860s." He said tribe is <br />now in phase two of water study to determine <br />exactly how much water tribe is entitled to <br />under various treaties and agreements between <br />tribe and federal government....lncreasing <br />snowfall in Colorado River Rockies by cloud <br />seeding would be cheapest method of insuring <br />there is enough water in Colorado River for <br />Central Arizona Project, Stanford Research <br />Institute report says. Institute said data <br />from pilot seeding program in San Juan mountains <br />indicate 20 to 25 per cent increase in snow- <br />fall above 900 feet could produce extra 1.1 <br />million acre-feet to 3.6 million acre-feet of <br />water a year, depending on whether it's dry or <br />