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Show DOLLARS INTO DUST 241 and as early as September 7. The growing season runs be- tween 88 and 92 days. That is, it would grow crops if frost and summertime snows did not kill everything. The whole thing is ridicu- lous, extravagant, and unnecessary. It constitutes an im- moral taking of private property for government socialism of desert mountain lands. Congress is being asked to appropriate billions of dol- lars to bring these new farms into production in a country where there are as few as forty-two days in which to grow even pasture grasses for dairy cows and sheep to graze on, and to produce more surplus butter and wool. It snows practically every month of the year in these three counties where it is proposed to develop 110,000 acres. We do not need to go to the top of the Rocky Moun- tains to create new farms on poor land at fantastic cost. Wrote historian Irving Brant in the Washington Post: 302 "If the backers of the project want to get it through the House they had better do three things fast: (1) Take Echo Park Dam out of it. (2) Offer a public oath that this dam, invading the national park system, will not be put back into the project at a later date, as is now planned. (3) Bring the bill to a vote before enough people realize that the whole enterprise is a half-baked squandering of billions of dollars." Thus, the cries against the crsp mounted throughout the land. Yet, any similarity between the thinking in the White House, notably that of Sherman Adams, and the truth of things was purely coincidental. It was midsummer. Congressmen could smell the barn at home, and were itching to adjourn. Their wishes, however, influenced Sherman Adams not at all. Presumably with the blessing of his chief, he ordered |
