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Show HUNGRY HORSE PREDICTION 35 but the state of Utah's spokesmen were to be the most vehement and articulate protestants of the suggestion. Wyoming could find nothing whatsoever wrong with the crsp plan. The state's attitude was, perhaps, most honestly expressed by one water official: 36 "I wish to state that I have read through said report, as time per- mitted, and find same a rather definite and compre- hensive report, well gotten up, and far be it for one so little informed as to criticize in any way, or add to or detract from, such an authentic estimate and record of facts." The official didn't explain how, being so little in- formed, he knew the crsp plan to be authentic and factual. The Reclamation Bureau had no interest in such questions. It had the official endorsements for the crsp from all the states that would benefit, and that was all the law required. The Department of the Army gave Secretary Chap- man and Commissioner Straus trouble. Army Secre- tary Frank Pace, Jr., refused to be appalled by the formidable array of statements, tables and charts con- tained in the crsp plan, and ordered his experts to re- connoiter the situation. In charge of the task was Major General Lewis A. Pick, chief of Army Engineers, and co-author of the Pick-Sloan Plan for the development of the Missouri River.37 When General Pick became convinced that he had the range, he opened fire, and a few well-chosen words later, the crsp plan was badly scorched. Wrote General Pick to Commissioner Straus: 38 |