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More Convincing Needed
Those who have been following the slow-as-
molasses progress in working out a program for
development of tne Kogue Kiver Dasm are invite a
to read carefully the letters penned by Col. Paul
Weiland, which appear elsewhere on this page.
They represent one point of view a per
fectly legitimate one in regard to what are the
most important benefits.
.They also seem to represent a slight change
in the all-or-nothing approach of which some
conservationists have been accused in the fish
vs. dams controversy in past years. Colonel Weil
and, it is widely known, is a spokesman for the
ardent sportmen's viewpoint.
TTHE spring run of chinook salmon in the Rogue
in past years represented a valued resource.
But it has been a declining one. Last year the
run was only about one-third of what it was a de
cade and a half earlier.
Colonel Weiland's suggestion that the plan of
oneration nronosed for Lost Creek is not neces
sarily sacred, and his implied recommendation
that studies be made to find out, are fair enough.
But we still maintain that the Fish and Wild
life Service has been less than candid about the
Rogue fishery; that it most certainly hasn't done
much to improve the declining run even with
out dams, and that the amount of foot-dragging
and pussy-footing it has engaged m over a period
of time stretching back into the early '40s is a
heck of a note for a federal agency.
Why haven't the necessary studies been made
and publicized long since:
AND it will take a lot more evidence than
"Colonel Weiland has supplied to convince us
that 8 per cent of the chinook run, in its present
declining stage, is a value which is ot more 1m
portance. than the potential benefits recrea
tion (including other types, of fishing), irriga
tion, power, flood control, and others of i
rounded development plan.
One of the crucial points in the letter, it
10 YEARS AGO seems LU US, is wucie vuiunei i ciiauu ojro, a
juir 2i. 1949 (Thursday) is a certamtv that the conservationist and nsh
An analysis of water con- organizations throughout the United States
sumption and revenue of users P , ne, jnn linJar tho nrn.
of Medford waten outside the wm viguiuusry uypyac uoui
city limits was released today, posed Operating Schedule.
TVio ninth annual . Shake-' .
spearean festival opens Tues- T was just such tactics that we had reference
day with "Romeo and Juliet." f. . ws pnt.inn "all or nothing-" -ODTJOsi-
IIU I!V1 . w-w CD J. J.
tion on the part of some fishery enthusiasts.
T ,;,r,qiTuMd.vi . What an organization in Tennessee, whose
There is ample labor . in members - never have and never will fish for
Jackson county to handle je1 spring chinook in the Rogue, knows (or cares)
coming crop., according to I y .P.i t t -.
County Agent Robert G. I aDOUt me Jogue nsneiy, is a quegwuii wc vc nCjv
er naa answered to our sausiactiuu.
This is the sort of implied threat which gets
wo the backs of those people who have an inter
est in other phases of the Rogue's potential. , A
i -i i i -i i- j?i j ii
man who nas lost nis nome in a iiooa is jusu
30 years ago fied in taking a dim view of it.
July 21. 1929 (Sunday)
The Aituras cut-off of the I7INALLY, we concede nay, we proclaim
extI3ffinSTS; " that a Rogue River sports fishery is import
Rogue River vaUey a direct ant, perhaps vital to this area's tourist trade,
route east, will be ready The question is, however, WHAT KIND of
Vormation can be ob- Sporte-fehery? " - .
ainpd as to whether any Med- The kind that attracts a few hundred (or a
ford hardware store win be few thousand) people to stalk the wily chinook:
in the big merger promoted oy Qr the kind that draws hundreds 01 tnous-
Pacific coast hardware stores. , , . . , small stream fishing,
PLUS the ever-growing number that like the lake
fishing which impoundments provide l
"MoitVifii. tV.q TPicV. onrl Wilrllifo ssrvifp nnr mn
.J J.,.J rtsnn. I - AlGilOiC. bills i.' 1JU IT xiuij-iv uv . -w, - '
ty warden walker to take good and sincere friend Colonel Weiland, have
charge of screening irrigation convinced US :
ditcnes- , , . 1. That the plan as proposed would damage
With TTlrwrl TTart as nllot. . . . 1 i t An A
" " - ' . UAnm mvnv tifhinn' Tirrion ntieinprpn
of the recently I J-V,J& uc "w noiiuig , uvu vwviviv
Flight 'o Time .
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files, ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
Fowler.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "It
feels like Page One heat was
brewing hereabouts,
40 YEARS AGO
July 21, 1919 (Monday)
Carl D. Shoemaker, state
Vi a airrtlano
organized Medford company WHOLE, nor
was to leave Sacramento lor
Medford this noon.
50 YEARS AGO
July 21. 1909 (Wednesday)
W. T. Rau, i former New
York hotel man, has leased
the Moore hotel property.
The Eagle Point limited,
running at great speed this
morning, hit the aitcn ust
Dennis the Menace
Colonel Weiland Advises Elimination
Of Irrigation Benefit at Lost Creek
'Dipya hear 'eour-irie gaxbasb 'sposaltmt goes 'oim. ,
om,oaK'? Gem? mr$ ajoG-'Aw.wtya gbtku
To the Editor:- Enclosed
please find a copy of a letter
to the U. S. Army Engineer
District, Portland.
It is believed that the an
swers to your questions can
be obtained from the report
by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service on the Rogue River
Basin dated April 1956. 1 have
a copy of this report that I
will be glad to loan. This re
port was made after data was
secured in the basin from 1949
to 1955 by specialists trained
for that purpose.
It is believed that there are
no benefits being held up ex
cept more water for irriga
tion. It is entirely possible that
all the irrigation requirements
can be met without using wa
ter from the main stem of the
Rogue river,
There is no question, accord
ing to all available informa
tion on moving salmon up ov
er a dam such as Lost Creek,
that all of that part of the run
would be lost. It may be true
Castro's Future in Doubt as
Revolutionary Trend Spreads
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
No matter how high Cuba's
Fidel Castro may be riding
now, there are many who pre
dict his coun
try will be in
volved in vio
lent revolu
tion before the
year is out.
What m a n-
ner of man is
Castro - sav
iour, impracti
c a 1 idealist,
trigger - hap
py zealot or tool of commu
nism? '. .
Whatever he is, few men
have so stirred the imagina
tions of restless Latin Ameri
cans since Simon Bolivar, the
South American liberator who
was born in Caracas, Venezu
ela, in 1783 .and who by the
time of his death at the age
of 47 was the .liberator-hero
of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecua
dor, Panama, Peru and Bo-
sS5.ii! -Titian r .?-::!
Phil N
livia.
In the seven months since
Castro drove former dictator
Fulgencio Batista from Cuba,
uprisings or threats of upris
ings have occurred in the Ca-J
ribbean nations of Panama,
Nicaragua, Guatemala, Hon
duras, Haiti and the Domini
can Republic.
Have Castro Trademark
Two of these, Nicaragua
and the Dominican Republic,
are dictator nations especially
ear-marked by Castro as next
on the liberation schedule.
But each uprising has had the
Castro trade-mark.
In most cases, the uprising
has been generated by politi
cal exiles of the nation in
volved, aided by Cubans and
sometimes abetted by training
in Cuba's Pinar Del Rio Prov
ince, spawning grounds of rev
olutions. ' - . -
The-magnetism of Castro's
leadership already has been
demonstrated. One news writ
er said of him: ,
Matter of Fact
Joseph Alsop
IIP?
2. That undue concern with 8 per cent (or
even 10 or 12 per cent) of the chinook runs rep
resent a; concern for the greatest good for the
greatest number. E.A.
t j
Rogue Surveys
The Rogue River basin has been surveyed by
north of the Pacific and East- more official bodies than any other stream in
em junction. Orep-nn. Starting in 1939 the Reclamation bureau,
at the. request of the State of Oregon, undertook
a comprehensive survey of the region, but its
recommendations in 1948 for dams in the upper
reaches of the river system brought such a storm
of protest irom sportsmen mat it nas lam aormanT,
ever since.
After'severe floods in 1955-56 the Corps of
Engineers undertook a survey, reports of which
are now being made public and again they
have drawn opposition how strong we do not
know from the fishing fraternity.
THEN the State Water Resources Board has
made a studv of the Roffiie basin resources
horse' at the direction of the 1957 Legislature, and sub-
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six b good. -
1. Oldtimers remember
that a Stanley steamer was a
steam-driven excursion boat,
automobile, or locomotive?
2. There are 1560, 1760, or
1960 yards in a mile?
3. The names of how many
States begin with the letter
"N"?
4. Which of', these animals
have cloven hoove:
5. Primo Camera was once mitted a verv comprehensive report this year.
world's heavyweight boxing With all this officially prepared and presum
diamp; true of false? bl reliable data at hand, ?t ought to be possible
words, wines, or women? to formulate a definite program for tne wise
7. a piece of turf cut from utilization of the varied and valuable: resources
the fairway by a golfer a call- of the Rogue River basin.
8. In what season is bock
beer usually available?
9. Of .what Scandinavian
country is Oslo the capital?
10. Do hotel rates quoted as
the "American," or the "Eu
ropean," plan include meals?
METHOD IN K's MADNESS
Washington - Missile power
was the topic of the most inter
esting suppressed passage in
in the ugly in
terview Nikita
S. Khrushchev
a c c o rded to
Averell Harri
man. :
The passage
was interest
ing, first of
all, because
Khrushchev so
' i t
-ins-oh Biisnn mucn, wanxea
to talk about missiles that he
introduced the topic himself.
He began with the same sort
of brutal boast about his me
dium range missiles that he
made to the West German
Socialist editors-"Eight will
be enough to destroy Western
Germany, six will wipe out
France, and so on.
The passage was interesting,
too, because Khrushchev did
not precisely claim that he
already - had enough long
range missiles to destroy the
United States. He boasted,
rather, of his long lead in
ICBM development. He added,
somewhat enigmatically, "If I
spend another 30 billion ru
bles, I can have enough inter
continental missiles for every
major city in America.
TUT his passage .was inter-
esting, above all, because
of Khrushchev's reply to Har-
riman, when the latter re
marked that the Soviet Union
would also suffer in an ex
change of nuclear weapons,
Khrushchev conceded that
Russia might not altogether
escape the West's retaliation,
but he implied that he feared
no damage going anywhere
near the hideous limits that
the Soviet strategists are
known to regard as accepta
ble.
We might lose Leningrad,'
he said, significantiy naming
the one great city in Russia
that is ' hardest to defend
against air attack. "But Lenin
grad, is not Russia, whereas
Paris is France, and London
is England."
The contrast between
Khrushchev's - ways of talk
ing about medium range and
long range missile power was
notable.
CONFLICTS arise over the demands for irriga
tion water, for power development, flood con
trol and preservation of sports fishing for which
the Rogue is famed. The bad flood of December,
1955 converted a good many to the need for dams
to retain heavy runoff because the flood waters
1760 yards. 3. Eight. 4. cow left thousands of f ish to die on the fields.
and., sheep. 5. Tru. (June, . The neoDle m the Roeue vallev and the au
1933 io June 1934). 6. study th -ti Oreeron and Washington ousrht to
spring!"". Norw'ay.'io." Ame- make up their minds on a program and unite to
icanplan. i put u over. yiegun otatesman, oaiem. ;
Answers: I. Automobile. 2.1
TT SEEMS .to offer partial
A confirmation of the Ameri
can analysts' estimate -of the
present state of the Soviet
missile program. But this is
largely counter-balanced, in
the opinion of the best authori
ties here, by Khrushchev's ap
parent confidence, or over
confidence, in the capacity of
his air defense system to par
ry an American nuclear strike
Only an H-bomb war can
show whether Khrushchev is
right, or the American air
staff is right, about the effec
tiveness of the Soviet air de
fense. In any case, as the Stra
tegic Air Commander, Gen
Thomas Power, has wisely
said, what Khrushchev thinks
we"can do to him matters even
more than what we really can
do to him. For if he thinks he
can - win the world for the
loss of only one city, he is
likely to take risks that wiU
bring on the kind of test one
must pray wul never be made.
No doubt that . is putting
Khrushchev's estimate in an
extreme way; but the Ameri
can analysts are now agreed
that' Khrushchev is rightly or
wr o n g 1 y downgrading the
Western nuclear deterrent in
thoroughly disturbing way,
If the deterrent does not de
cisively deter, the result must
be an arrogant conviction of
Soviet military superiority. A
conviction of military superi
ority is the necessary basis,
in turn, for the peculiar tac
tics Khrushchev is now using.
The tactics are only too
clearly defined. Both 4Jle Her
riman interview and Khrush
chev's more recent Polish
speeches were marked by an
apparently lunatic alternation
of missile-rattling and loud
protestations that the Soviet
Union would "Never, never,
never launch any war."
,'.
THE lunacy is only apparent.
This is a familiar combina
tion, of boasts of strength to
inspire fear and protestations
of peacefulness to promote
wishful thinking. It was just
the combination that worked
so weU for Adolf Hitler, until
the very last round.
Former Governor Harriman
greatly diluted his published
accounts of his Khrusncnev
interview, and he deplored
Washington's description of
this interview as "Hitler-like,
for the same reason. He fear
ed impairment of his own
ability to negotiate with the
Kremlin in the future-which
is an entirely legitimate reason.
It is also true that Knru-
schchev does not resemble
Hitler, in the sense of posi
tively wanting war. But
Khruschev's tactics most cer
tainly resemble Hitler's tac
tics, with the intimidation
largely directed, at least for
the present, at the western
Allies overseas. EquaUy cer
tain, the conviction of mili
tary superiority already re
ferred to is the true basis of
these tactics.
Yet in these circumstances,
nothing whatever is being
done to alter - Khrushchev's
judgment of the military bal
ance. Neville Chamberlain at
least launched his famous
fake rearmament program,
And history and his country-
Lmen do not remember Neville
Chamberlain with any kind
liness. (C) 1959. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Fidel Castro and his 26th
of July movement are the
flaming symbol of opposition
to the regime. The organiza
tion is formed of youths of
aU kinds. It is a revolutionary
movement that calls itself so
cialistic. It is also nationalist,
which generally in Latin
America means anti-Yankee.
The program is vague and
couched in generalities, but it
amounts to a new deal for
Cuba, radical, democratic and
therefore anti-communistic."
Two Years Early
That paragraph was
phrased nearly two years in
advance of Castro's final victory.
In one aspect it proved ac
curate. In another, at least
open to doubt.
Castro obviously came to
power with -his ultimate ob
jectives only vaguely couched
in his mind. The result is to
day's chaos. - .
Laws or decrees have been
promulgated at Castro's
whim. Each is advertised as
for the nation's good, but each
has resulted in near or total
dislocation of the area af
fected. Nearly half of Cuba's two-million-man
working, force is
alyzed the building field. The
alzed the building field. The
agrarian reform law brought
almost total paralysis to cane,
tobacco and rice plantings.
And so the list goes
Castro's own headstrong na
ture has shown in the dismal,
rhythmic sound of Cuban fir
ing squads before whom near
ly 600 already have f aUen,
with more promised. First vic
tims were alleged Batistaites.
To them now are added "counter-revolutionaries"
and op
ponents of the agrarian reform
law. '
Castro's own handpicked
president, Manuel Urrutia
Lleo, found what could hap
pen as result of criticizing the
regime. He was dismissed and
accused of near-treason be
cause he protested the grow
ing power of communism in
Cuba.
that the Pelton Dam operation
will work, however it is
doubtful that the cost in mon
ey and water would justify
such a procedure for Lost
Creek. No doubt the cost
would make the dam other
than feasible.
The Copper dam regardless
of how beneficial could not
offset the loss of the spring
chinook since spring chinook
could never be established in
the Applegate. The stream
does not have the required
characteristics.
It must be remembered that
the spring chinook salmon run
of the Rogue is a resource ana
one that we can easily lose
and once lost can never be re
placed. The Rogue spring chi
nook is the only run like it in
the world. These fish are
known the world over for
their qualities over and above
other spring chinook salmon
runs.
When we have lost this re
source is soon enough to build
a dam on the main stem that
might have done away with
the resource sooner,
. I hope and feel that we can
iustifv a dam at Lost Creek
" ... . .
for all benefits except irriga
tion and get Congress to ap
propriate the necessary funds,
because I feel that we will be
able to show that with such
an operation we will save the
anadromous fish runs of the
Rogue.
In my opinion this is tne
way to get a Federally bum
dam at Lost Creek.
Paul H. Weiland (
2431 East Main St
Medford
U. S. Army Engineer District,
Portland
Corps of Engineers
628 Pittock Block
PorUand 5, Oregon -Dear
Sir:
Having made a thorough
study of the proposed operat
ing plan for Lost Creek Dam
I feel certain that it can only
be detrimental to the ana
dromous fishery under that
plan. In my opinion the dam
ages would be a great aeai
more than just eliminating 8
per cent of the spring chinook
salmon run that now spawn
above that point. j
It is a certainty that the
conservationist and fishery or
ganizations throughout the
United States will vigorously
oppose the dam under the
proposed operating schedule.
I feel safe in saying that
most aU people familiar with
the Rogue River fishery prob
lems and who are interested
in trying to save that resource
will agree that none of the wa
ter from a Lost creeK reser
voir should be used for irriga-
Washington Report
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
mm
William S.
Wbite
maneuvering
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Dislikes Cobras
To the Editor: An industry
that is fast growing in our fair
land is Cobra Farming, in
the past, with our . rattlers,
copperheads, and cottdn
mouthed mocassins, plus a few
coral snakes and Gila mon
sters, we have considered our
selves lucky here in America,
not to have this fast-breeding
most poisonous of all reptiles
to contend with.
The cobra brings forth live
young, hundreds at a tune,
and over-run a given area in
a very short time, with their
rate of several births a year
at this hundreds - at - a - time
nace.
It Drobably would oe saia
that they are not acclimated
to this land and therefor could
not become a menace here.
Then how come they are liv
ing in the "Cobra Farms" of
Jackson county as well as all
over our lands? This business
of importing these poisonous
and repulsive reptiles, that
are foreign to America, has
been going on for several
year, and is growing, because
of patronage of people who
so wish to see something new
and strange, that they pay
the price to look upon some
thing more -deadly than our
own poisonous snaKes.
In Springfield, Mo., in 193.J,
some cobras escaped one of
these . "Farms" and kept the
natives of that section of the
THE LABOR DILEMMA ,
Washington - For the first
time in decades the Demo
cratic party generally is more
""n afraid of
1 seeming to be
afraid of la
bor than it is
:. o f offending
labor.
This is the
"gut" truth
lies all the
current Cbn-
gre s s i o n a 1
over labor re
form bills. In a word, a whole
long era of highly simplified
political alignments -here
were the Democrats plus "La
bor" neatly arrayed against
th Republicans plus "Busi-
ness"-has come to an end,
There is, now, widespread
Democratic recognition - not
just among conservatives and
moderates but also among the
bulk of the liberals-that the
public resolutely demands ac
tion against labor excesses.
The new and fundamental
reality is this: the Democrats
now believe that while it sure
ly would be dangerous for
Congress to enrage labor by
punitive legislation, it would
be even more dangerous to go
home without acting at all.
THE Democratic party sim
ply cannot afford to have
the public think it lacked the
courage to act. Men of all fac
tions have told this corre
spondent as much, and made
no bones about it. '
' In one sense, the Democrats
have been delivered from an
old bondage to the labor lead-
In another sense,, they
have inherited almost insolu
ble problems as to how ' to
conduct themselves m this
phase of new freedom - and
new risk.
For the great mass pf the
Democrats' are by no means
anti-labor." They are simply
no longer automatically "pro-
labor." This is mainly because
of the disclosures of corrup
tion made by the long investi
gations of the Senate "rack
ets" committee. This body has
been under the chairmanship
of a Democratic conservative,
Sen. John L. McClellan of Ar
kansas. But its whole history
and tone have been dominated
almost as much by its out
standing liberal member, Sen.
John F. Kennedy of Massachur
sptts. and his brother, Robert,
who is the committee's chief
of counsel.
state alarmed and on eage
for months, until they had
captured or kulecL all of the
reptiles known to have es
ranprl. But how could any
body be sure their fast breed
ing had not left a start mai
would turn the Ozark Moun
tains into a little India, witn
deaths from cobra bites run
ning to an average rate simi
lar to that of India?
We protect our people rrom
the evils of imported drugs,
and we keep a strict quaran
tine for protection against
rieadlv disease that might be
carried to our people by im
migrants to this country. If
it is because we- do not wish
to deprive our citizens of the
thrill of seeing the evil thing
that would destroy them, that
we allow cobra farms. (The
king cobra is supposed to be
the onlv snake that will come
after you to strike, without
provocation), I am satisfied to
look at a picture of tnem.
Pat Graham
175 Jeanette st.,
Medford
There is an ultra-conserva
tive Democratic handful in
Congress that would like sun
ply to punish labor. There is
an ultra-liberal quarter-nana-
ful that- almost would go to
the point of exempting labor
from all laws, including tne
traffic laws, if it could.
.
UT the' great majority of
the Democrats really want
to deal evenly and rationaUy
-to "clean up" but certainly
not to destroy labor-not only
for urgent political reasons
but also for plain reasons of
public interest. "
Wish is one thing, however,
and performance is quite an
other. To begin with, labor
legislation is immensely com
plicated, requiring an expert-
ness demanded in. no other
field. Too, the Congressional
Republicans understandably
have no wish to assist in taK
ing their Democratic antago
nists off the hook. Some of
them, at many times and
many places in both houses
of Congress, are dropping
sand in the gears. .
("Why not?" growls a Re
publican senator. ''The voters
gave the Democrats the. re
sponsibility of giying ,'them
control of Congress.; Now -let
the Democrats keep the re
sponsibility.") .
Moreover, no domestic issue
has-been bedevilled longer by
extremism and by stereotypes
and stale slogans. While the
ultra -conservatives want to
make 'labor more or less un
constitutional labor itself
tends to demand the whole
loaf. Labor has largely earned
and honorably kept its high
place in American society.
But rather than helping the
temperate Democrats to bring
off a reasonable solution,
some labor leaders are crying
"no" to nearly everything.
THEY did exactly this 11
years ago when the Taft
Hartley act was being drawn.
They alienated the moderates.
The only result was to build
up rather than to reduce anti
labor extremists. It was only
the patient and skillful Sen.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio who
saved labor from truly vindic
tive legislation that passed the
House. Labor is risking now a
repetition of 1948.
Taft's reward was to be un
reasonably denounced by la
bor leaders who owed him
much more than they recog
nized until much later. They
carr-j too late to understand
what this supposed "enemy'
had in fact done for them, in
a public climate so angry with
labor it was ready to throw
the baby out along with the
bath water.
The climate of public opin
ion is similar now, by every
sign. Again, however, labor
leaders are refusing to give
effective support to those tem
perate men, such as Senator
Kennedy, who are earnesUy-
and . above aU competently-
trying to protect labors ana
the public's legitimate inter
ests. . '
(Copyright, 1959, by Unilea
eFature Syndicate. Inc.)
tion under the five dam pro
gram, since all available wa
ter from the river above Lost
Creek will be required for
keeping the water tempera
tures in Lower Rogue low
enough so that the down
stream migrant salmon and
steelhead will not die before
they can reach the ocean. -
Attached is a- graph, show
ing maximal water tempera
tures of Rogue and those trib
utaries having a flow of at
least five cubic feet per sec
ond. Those temperatures were
taken by Mr. Cole Rivers, fish
biologist, Oregon State Game
Commission, Sept. 16 to 19,
1958. When one realizes that
most of the downstream mi
grating salmon and steelhead
(young), were still in the river
below Grants Pass at this
time, they will see the im
portance of reducing the wa
ter temperatures.
Many of us locally want the
Lost Creek Dam, provided it
will be operated and used only
for the following benefits:
Flood control, Municipal wa
ter, Fishery, Power and Recreation.
Under this plan the release
of water should be controlled
so as to first secure the maxi
mum flood control and next
the most benefit to the fish
ery of the whole river , below
the dam.
Recommend that study be
started at once by you and the
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Serv
ice and the Oregon State
Game Commission on the pos
sibilities of the dam being op
erated for those benefits only.
My study indicates that the
necessary water could be im
pounded even durmg a low
water' period such as 1931-
1935 to furnish water about as
follows to provide the best
habitat for the anadromous "
fish:
(a) Minimum release - 1,000
cubic feet per second.
(b) In July release 300 cfs
above intake or normal
streamf low.
, (c) In August and Septem
ber release 600 cfs above nor
mal streamf low.
(d) First 15 days of October
release 450 cfs above normal
streamflow. .
, The releases above 1000 cfs
of course should be reduced
when the water is not needed
to lower water temperatures
in lower Rogue. - -
Many of us feel that with
out the dam being operated in
this manner so as to lower wa
ter temperatures in the lower
Rogue the high temperatures
will in a matter of years do
away with all of the spring
chinook salmon run and all of
the summer run steelhead and
the fall run steelhead and
most of the faU run salmon
and winter run steelhead,
since with increased irriga
tion from other dams the
downstream migrants will be
killed. Jn warm waters of low
er Rogue except those that
reach the ocean before about
July 15.
Without such an assist to
help lower temperatures it
may be that the Elk Creek,
Lakecreek and Meadows proj
ects will be too damaging, be
cause of the large increases in
high temperature water enter
ing the river.
It is of course realized mat
fishery benefits will have to
take up that benefit that could
be charged to irrigation. I feel
that when a careful check is
made of the land that is .worth
the price to irrigate that the
irrigation job can be done
cheaper and as well without
the use of any water from the
upper Rogue River.
Respectfully.
Paul H. Weiland
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