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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH 35 fee to be charged at a reservoir - such as this, should this proposed legislation be enacted into law, and several people favoring projects such as this have indicated their support of this land and water conservation fund bill to put the reclamation and fish and wildlife allocation in a better light. Would you care to comment what you think the local opinion might be here with respect to such a fee of $ 7 a year being charged for any user of this reservoir? • Mr. BARLOCKER. I don't think that there will be any question about them going along with anything to get the project, within reason. Mr. WHITE. Well, then, you would consider that fee to be within reason? Mr. BARLOCKER. I would consider it being in reason. I question whether or not it would have to be that high, from the standpoint that we run approximately 200,000 cars a year, I believe, through Zion National Park, and they charge $ 1 a car. Mr. WHITE. Well, this would include all of the reservoirs in the United States, it wouldn't be just for this particular one. Mr. BARLOCKER. This is for all the reservoirs ? Mr. WHITE. The entire United States. Mr. BARLOCKER. I see nothing wrong with it, r Mr. WHITE. Thank you. Mr. ROGERS. Thank you, Mr. Mayor for your testimony. Our next witness is Mr. Blaine Andrus, president of the St. George Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Andrus. STATEMENT OF BLAINE ANDRTJSi, PRESIDENT, ST. GEORGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Mr. ANDRUS. Mr. Chairman, my name is Blaine Andrus, and I am the president of the St. George Chamber of Commerce, and if you recall the story I told at the dinner this evening, I believe I missed the room entirely I was hunting for. I am indeed frightened. ...... As president of the St. George Chamber of Commerce I should like to express a few viewpoints and comments that have come to the attention of the chamber. In the past year we have had an average of 12 inquiries per week from people stopping at chamber offices concerning being able to buy a home and settle here in St. George. Most of these people need jobs to provide for their families. Our Dixie climate attracts them. We have recently been fortunate enough to have the Hawthorne Manufacturing Co. locate here. This will help, but we need more of these companies if we are going to be able to: First, keep our young people here, and provide a means for them to make a living; second, we need more industry to be able to invite these 624 families ( for that is how many have stopped and made inquiries this past year) to make St. George their home. Our best product is our young men and young women and we are sorry to admit that we export almost our entire crop each year. , Without the Water and power the Dixie project would supply we are very limited in our future growth. We solicit your support in making the Dixie project a reality. I thank you for this opportunity to report, Mr. Chairman. |
