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Show DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH 131 Mr. BUBTON of Utah. Mr. Chairman, I would like to inform the chairman and the members of this committee that tomorrow our people from Utah will deliver to your office a little bag of apricots that were grown on Mr. Wilson's farm. They won't cost you anything. They will be the most delicious things you have ever eaten and as you eat them, I want you to cogitate on that extra quarter of an inch we will have when we get the Dixie project. Mr. JOHNSON. Bringing up the matter here before Mr. Wilson, I see it is paying off. Mr. DUNCAN. Will the gentleman yield? Mr. BURTON. Yes. / ( Discussion off the record.) Mr. JOHNSON. If there is no objection, the telegram from the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce will be inserted in the record at this point. Also, the statement of the National Reclamation Association, prepared by William E. Welsh, executive director, will be inserted at this point. Hearing no objection it is so ordered. If there are no further witnesses to come before the committee, the committee will adjourn subject to the call of the Chair. ( The telegram and statement referred to follow:) CEDAB CITY, UTAH, June 22,1964. Representative WALTER ROGERS, Chairman, House Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Washington, D. C.: Passing of Dixie project vital to economy of southern Utah water and power, the lifeline of our progress. Appreciate support in favor of this project. JACK HAYES, President, Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. STATEMENT RE LEGISLATION To AUTHORIZE THE DIXIE PROJECT, UTAH, BY WILLIAM E. WELSH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL RECLAMATION ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. name is William E. Welsh. I am executive director of the National Reclamation Association. My purpose in appearing before the committee today is to support the so- called Dixie project on behalf of the board of directors of the National Reclamation Association. The Dixie project, as proposed, is a multipurpose development in southwestern Utah which would provide water for irrigation, industry, municipalities, power, flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreation benefits. The proposed project area is in the Virgin River Basin, a part of the Lower Colorado River Basin. It would provide an irrigation water supply for 9,445 acres of lands that are presently irrigated but with an inadequate flow of water, and a full irrigation water supply to presently dry lands of approximately 11,600 acres. The existing supply of water, most of which is obtained from direct diversion, is both un- dependable and inadequate for the arable lands of the project |