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Show THE WESTERN WEB 79 McFarland announced that he had five more rebuttal witnesses to present, and he began to run them through the mill. As they were not subject to cross-examination, Shaw requested and received permission to reply to them with prepared statements which would be printed in the record of the hearings. McFarland objected, declaring: "We would like the hearings to be concluded and the record printed." Judge Clifford H. Stone,51 a director of the Colorado State Water Conservation Board, was introduced by McFarland. He did little more than replay the records of preceding Arizona witnesses, and he was quickly succeeded by R. J. Tipton, a Denver consulting engi- neer.52 Tipton charged that California was making an effort to provide a firm water supply to satisfy its own priorities, a water supply which he believed should go to Arizona and the states of the Upper Basin. Thus, two prominent Coloradans testified before Millikin, a senator from Colorado, that their state fully supported Arizona. Both were speaking as officials of Colorado, with the cognizance and authority of state leaders, including the governor. Next McFarland called R. Gail Baker,53 state recla- mation engineer of Arizona. He told the committee that if power from Bridge Canyon Dam were sold in Cali- fornia for five mills, the project would pay out in sixty- eight years. He was followed by K. S. Wingfield, a consulting engineer of Washington, d. a,54 who made the point that if Bridge Canyon power were sold at 5.5 mills, Los Angeles could consume large blocks of it, and would not have to develop power with fuel. Arizona's last witness was H. S. Casey Abbott,55 of |