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Show 240 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Rep. Hosmer, a loyal Republican, retorted: "Ba- nanas on Pike's Peak." The conservationists reacted in similar fashion to the Republican National Com- mittee's effort to justify the unpopular stand of the administration, and countered with a press release of their own in which the Interior Department's statement that Echo Park Dam was the piston in the engine was recalled. "If we expect to kill Echo Park Dam," said their re- lease,300 "we have no course but to do our utmost to defeat the project in which they expect to restore Echo Park Dam one way or another." Another strong Republican voice was heard, much to the irritation of the White House. It came from Rep. Gwinn of New York, who told Congress that the crsp "freezes up 323 days a year but costs $5,000 an acre. A part of the project lies at such high altitude that it would have a growing season of only forty-two days a year." 301 Gwinn warmed up to his cold subject in this way: It would cost the taxpayers of the nation nearly $5,000 an acre to develop hay lands in this high, cold country where in some places it snows every month in the year, and where spring killing frosts come as late as July 11 and fall frosts as early as August 22. A large part of the land to be irrigated in this incon- ceivable project lies at an altitude of 6,500 to 7,000 feet in the Wyoming counties of Lincoln, Sublette and Uinta. In Lincoln County killing frosts come as late as June 30 on an average, and as early as August 22. The growing season runs between 53 and 73 days. In Sublette County killing frosts come as late as July 11 and as early as August 22. The growing season runs be- tween 42 and 60 days. In Uinta County killing frosts come as late as June 11 |