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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH 39 of Utah, and the United States. The OK of this project will be an achievement, Chairman Rogers, or Congressman Burton, that your committee will be able to point to with pride. We solicit your support and help. I thank you. Mr. SOGERS. Thank you, Mr. Fry, for your testimony. Our next witness Mr. Wallace Iverson, president of the Washington & St. George Canal Co. Mr. Iverson. Mr. BURTON. Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Burton. Mr. BURTON. Ladies and gentlemen, when I handed this list of witnesses to the chairman tonight, and it is quite a long one, as you can see, he asked which witnesses were in opposition. I said well, we couldn't find any in opposition, and we can't; and I think you can judge from the expressions tonight that people of Utah are pretty strongly behind this, but I would like to say to those who remain on the list, and there are still a dozen, it would help us greatly, I think, if you could just present a brief statement, a resume of what's in your testimony and then give a copy to the clerk here and it will be shown in the record as though it were read in full. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Iverson. STATEMENT OF WALLACE IVERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON & ST. GEORGE CANAL CO. Mr. IVERSON. Thank you, Mr. Burton and you spoke that just at the right time. I didn't know my name was on the list. Mr. Chairman and Governor Clyde and distinguished gentlemen, I appreciate this opportunity of saying a few words, and they will be a few. We are all in harmony with what's been said, I am sure, and I don't know as there's any need of saying a lot about it. I am president of the. largest agricultural irrigation company on the Virgin River, and the prayers of these gentlemen, farmers that are in that area, have been for this Dixie project. I heard President Eisenhower say at one time that prayer multiplies a strength of each individual and brings; within the scope of his capability almost any conceivable objective. The objective, of course, is the Dixie project, and we appreciate very much your attendance here. I was in San Diego, Calif., with the: water users of the Lower Colorado Water Basin, and we had a representative there from here to represent the Dixie project. After all the speeches had been given, he was permitted to speak, and it seemed as most of them went to sleep. It seemed that we were between the lower project and the upper project of the Colorado Basin, and we were in no man's land. Whichever place we went to a meeting we were more or less considered not much of a project. But, tonight it gives us pleasure to be represented here by you gentlemen. It gives us courage and hope we have never had before, and we want to thank you for being here. I thank you. Mr. ROGERS. Thank you, sir, for your testimony and your comments. Our next witness is Mr. George Seegmiller, chairman of the Dixie Soil Conservation District. Mr. Seegmiller, if you will come forward and be recognized. |