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Show Work Defends Colorado Suit Washington In view of the claim set up by the state of Utah that It owns the bed of a long stretch of the Colorado river, and in view of the proceedings pro-ceedings instituted by the state to set aside federal oil leases in the Colorado River canyon near Moab, the interior department has asked the attorney general either to interreno in the pending pend-ing litlgatoin, or bring an original suit in the supreme court of the United : States to determine the title of the I river bed. 1 |