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001118 - . . for the benefit of the Eastern Slope shall be discontinued in advance of any Western Slope appropriations. The contract between the District and the United States obligates the District to observe the Colorado River Compact and the Bould~r Canyon Project Act. This fact of a less supply in the river than was the basis of water supply at the time of the 1937 Senate Document 80 Agreement, imperils the ability of the district to obtain its 310,000 acre feet counted upon out of Granby Reservoir and the tunnel. The construction of Green Mountain Reservoir was to meet those downstream claims. Hence, the matter of relative priority dates between Denver and the District on the Blue River is of great importance. E. Propaganda ~ Denver Attacks Letters during the year and recently a series of articles in "The Eaton Herald" by E. S. Toelle, the executive-secretary of an association of water users have attacked the court pro- ceedings of our project and its claims to water, particularly the legal matter of handling the adjudications of its water rights in court and the temporary, as well as permanent, plan of opera- tion of its water rights. Their author had copies' sent to our Senators and Congressmen. The District counsel has not been favored with those letters, but we have seen some mailed to ditch companies. His attacks seem to be due mainly to their author's lack of understanding of the nature of Colorado statu- tory and other court adjudicat~ons of water rights and of our project, now over twenty years in development. He, himself, aided by some in pay of our opponents, organized the association and have a large voice in the activities for which, he is paid. Denver papers have carried also, by a columnist and news stories, like one-sided accounts, prejudicial to our project while our , rights are under consideration by the courts. -10-