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Show HUNGRY HORSE PREDICTION 55 improving their own lot with water that was legally theirs. The Backman attempt in Los Angeles and the mission of Jensen to Salt Lake City established beyond a doubt that no progress toward averting full-scale warfare could be accomplished under the banner of professed friendship. Only legal and legislative bloodshed could settle the issues. The Upper Basin states increased the tempo of their publicity campaign to win friends and influence people - not in California, which they regarded as a lost cause, but in all other parts of the nation. Printing presses in Grand Junction, Colorado, hired by the Upper Basin Commission, were busy day and night turning out an avalanche of brochures, pamphlets and pictures which portrayed in glowing terms the wonders of the crsp. Uninhibited by facts, the authors of this flood of propaganda let their typewriters run amok. Their theme song was, of course, that every penny invested in the crsp would be paid back "within approximately fifty years from the date of completion of the last unit." 66 They conveniently forgot to say that the pay- out period of the first phase of the crsp was itself 103 years, and not even the Reclamation Bureau could say how long it would take to complete the whole project. The publicity writers unhesitantly claimed that the crsp would return to the Federal Treasury a profit of 250 per cent. Where they got this wild figure was not disclosed. The writers blandly went on to say that the power market for the project had been investigated by both the Reclamation Bureau and the Federal Power Com- |