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Show hwiiMilm Ur tsLB ilUITIINUIlLU State Executives to Read Provisional Colorado River Treaty l SANTA, ri:, X. M , Nov. 17, (By I he-Associated Press Seven Btate governors and govi-rnors-elect are expected ex-pected to be at the Bishops lodge by Saturday for a co'tlfetence lth the ICdlorado river commission regarding the wut'-r. w hich was agreed upon in principle by the commission Thursday. I The commission ib said to be anxious to have the views of the executives i who will present the river treaty to , their respective legislatures for ratification ratifi-cation before approval congress. I The governors expected to be jm s- ent will be Bnouyp of Colorado, Carey tor Wyoming. Mei ham of Npw .Mexico, Campbell "l Arizona. Uovernors-elecl ' Bcrughkm of Nevada. Sweet of Colo-rado, Colo-rado, liichardson of California, while Qoverndr-clect Hunt of Arizona is to bi represented by Ueorge H O. Maxwell Max-well of Phoenix. Following its announcement Thursday Thurs-day afternoon on n plan of division of waters between two groups of states, ont consisting of Wyoming, I tali Colorado and New Mexico, and the (other, Arizona, Nevada, and California tho commission went Into session ' I'nlted States Senator II. '. l'.ursum Ol New Mexico, attended Thursday night's session. Tlfe terms of the pact. It Is expected, will be agreed upon early next week. Chairman Herbert Hoover. S. D Davis, New Mexico commissioner, com-missioner, and others gave out Interviews Inter-views expressing their gratification that an agrccno nt In principle had been reachced. POWKK SELDOM USED The Colorado river commission, so called, is composed of a representative of tho United States and a commissioner commis-sioner for each of the seven states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico. Utah and Wyoming. It was formed for the purpose of forniu-latlOD forniu-latlOD of an Interstate compact to pro-j vide for tho equitable apportionment and disposition of the waters of tne Colorado river within the United States. REOAIiLS LARAMIE ( W Tho treaty making powers of the states frequently has been availed of i in matters respecting interstate boundaries, boun-daries, fisheries and other like subjects but this Is tho first Instance in American Ameri-can history whero several states arc attempting to make oji equitable apportionment ap-portionment of tho benefits to be deprived dep-rived from the uses of the waters of an Interstate stream prior to the development de-velopment of conflict respecting established estab-lished uses, and before the construe Hon of large enterprises which ultimately ulti-mately would glvo rise to Interstate conflict The application of the treaty method meth-od of settlement to prese nt or futon interstate, complications respecting the use and disposition of streams common com-mon to two or more 9tates Is the natural nat-ural outgrowth of litigation ) eiween some of the states, before the United States supremo court, and particularly tho late cane of Wyoming vs Colorado 1 involving the use and allocation of the waters of the Laramie river. IMPERIAL V M i l A FLOOD Authorities agree that the Imperial 'l ey. in southern California. J one Of the nir9t fertile and productive of the agricultural areas In the Unit-e Unit-e States. The whole area Is below sea li ve!, and Is protected from inun-jdation inun-jdation by an alluvial bar formed by I deposition of slit carried thence b the ! Colorado river. In diverting a small part of the waters of the river through j canals for Irrigation of the lands Of the valley, this bar was weakened to l$uch a degree that the whole river followed the line of least resistance and turned Its course away from the Gulf of California nnd Into the valley, The threatened Inundation of the valley val-ley was stopped and by continuous effort, ef-fort, the people of The valley have suc-c suc-c eded in controlling the floods which have become an ever-Increasing menace. men-ace. PROTECTS UPPER STATUS Reservoir control of the flow of the river has been the natura.1 conclusion of careful engineering study of tho flood problem. The uses of such reservoirs res-ervoirs for generation of power and lr-rlgatlon lr-rlgatlon to additional lands will be necessary ne-cessary in order to repay, tho enormous enor-mous cost of their construction. But such construction and uses mlht well give rise to preferred claims upon the entire flow of tho rive to the detriment detri-ment of the necessary future dlevclop-menl dlevclop-menl Of the territory of the four upper states In which the river has Its rise. The establishment of Institutions by virtue of which a preferred right to use of all the waters of the river might be asserted, it has been pointed out, would result In a perpetual embargo ' upon the future development Of the upper areas unless such development and use of the waters of tho rher Is. adequately protected before tho construction con-struction of the structures upon the lower river By providing such immunity im-munity from assertions or adverse rights the upper territory will be left to Its natural and normal development without meterlall) interri ring with thi-immediate thi-immediate development of additional territory on the lower river and flood protection to the threatened areas. |