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Show LESTER ERBES #1 they got some money from fjsh and Game and the Water Resources. SG: These are federal agencies? LE: Yeah. The thi.ng is, if you have some money, if you have the nut, the nestegg, the seed money, then you can apply t o the Four Co r n er s R e g i on a 1 Co mm i s s i on , but they won ' t start anything. If you have some money already, they '11 help out, they'll add to it. But if you don't have any money to begin with, they won't give you anything. So we're going to try here on our lake by borrowing some money from the state water board. I've forgotten exactly what it's called, but they came down here when I was on the city council several years ago. They came down and just begged us to take some money. It's interest free, r~payable in twenty years. We were interested in doing it anyhow, but they were the ones who made it possible, covering our irrigation ditches in town, you know. I've forgotten exactly how much money we got from them, so met hi n g 1 i k e thirty thous a n d do 11 a rs • It ' s interest free and repayable in twenty years. Now if we can get, say, three of four hundred thousand dollars from them interest free and repayable in twenty years, we can add one mill to our tax levy and take care of the whole thing. With that kind of seed money, we can go to the Four Corners Regional Commission and to Fish and Game and 19 |
