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Show Part Two As the year 1954 began, the army of the Upper Basin was camped on Capitol Hill. January 18 was the day on which hearings would start on the crsp before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the House Interior Committee, a day for which the sponsors and designers of the largest water and power project ever devised had waited for almost a year. The three bills to be considered simultaneously varied in few re- spects, and all called for the construction of a larger project than even the impractical schemers of the Recla- mation Bureau had proposed. Great and fanciful as the three bills were, however, it was soon to be understood that they were not dreams. Each of them embodied the stark reality of expenditures amounting to billions of dollars. Meanwhile, as the forces of the Upper Basin waited impatiently for their day, the state of Colorado was having a family row that threatened to divide its con- gressional delegation into two camps and prevent state unanimity in the coming fight. Denver and the eastern slope areas of the Colorado mountains not only wanted to be given something by the crsp, but were proposing |
