Show t River Confab Studies Ways To 10 Cut Salt Possibilities of reducing sal of Colorado Color River water were aired Friday at a meet meetIng ing of the Southwest Water Conference at Santa Fe N M Jay R Bingham Dingham council man chairman and director director- of Utah Water and Power Board Way ne D Criddle state engineer and Atty Gen A Pratt Kes ler represented Utah at the conference THE MEXICAN govern I ment has protested that Cola I Colo-I rado River water reaching that country is almost unus unus- unusable able because of salt it has picked up from the soil Mr Criddle revealed that the position of the US and of the states involved is that they will wUl do everything in reason to alleviate excessive salt short of giving of-giving giving Mexico more water than its annual allotment of f n million acre acre- feet of water THEUS THE US BUREAU of flee Rec Is studying means to reduce the rivers river's salt content he explained |