Show bounty tate Views on Division m m m of Colorado River Water ww Uintah Basin hop- to insure a fair share of Colorado River basin water for county and Utah up last Thursday at a pub tic hearing held at Price by the Up- per Basin Colorado River Com- pact commission The meeting was one of a les called by the commission to gather Inform a Uon which will be used ln writing a compact for the division of Colorado River between Wyoming and New tL county lve f eastern u willing to abide by the report of the Bureau of Reclamation regarding the de- of the He said that engineering work has al- ready been completed of the projects proposed by the Park store approximately acre feet of and needed electric the Industrial- nd It an objection to Uie Central Wh be- cause it water from the Colorado Mayor It String bam declared that the needs of the Colorado Basin be met Surplus water can make possible the Central Utah according to Mayor String He urged that proposed industrial devel- within the various lions be one of the on which the allocation Byron state senator declared that hU section is opposed to as the water used on tha Colo- rado River watershed u nUal Mountains i t Favorable to diversion was J. president of the Provo Water Users If our area U given a fair share of orado River the River project will more than 50 per cent of the state with supplemental he a plea for various states to cooperate in the development Df the river was cheu state sen- He advocated that a ays- tern of financing to devised ao that the project located In sparely populated areas can to paid for without over debts on the communities Stating that a proposal has been advanced that only part of the water be allocated now and the remaining surplus dl- at a later William R. president of the Utah made emphatic objection to the 1 Wallace said that the first objective of the Upper basin states should be to allocate the He advocated as a sec- step the formation of an or- to present to Con- project needs of the states and to work for of legislation to th project to Con- rA federal and commission stated it will to io secure between tha affected states Utora in upper Col- coin pact ble to that recently approved tot the Missouri River can to inured Commission- w u of ln Writ to the of U bisin j. on Page Divot Water from Page The compact ac- to Cilfford H. Stone from h body and Mn only recommend B The he must be ratified by the Ute Hop were td u meeting that a compact might drawn up In time lor pre- it before the various in Feltch Alma lr pm 6 SaeS and Bob |