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Show H COLORADO RIVER f f PACT IS SIGNED P i DOOUMENT FIRBT OF ITS KINO fr: I WILL WBATHER ANY LKQAL hdn AB8UALT AUTHORS BKLIBVl If Bf Seven Southwestern Commonwealths' Jflfllj Agree to Document Drawn In flTl Three WeskV Conference of Hkafl Colorado River Commission HH i tenia. Ft.1i Colorado rlrer HH j treaty, the first document of its kind, BH- 2 faros agreed to by roprsentatlvca of HHJl , teeven Southwestern statos and of the BBY federal govornraenL Pf Tho pnct was signed here following HB . three weeks' conference between BB: Members of tho Oolorndo rlrer com- BTi 1 .mission, and previa for tho dlstrfbu- HBi ,oa for Irrigation end water develop- H saeat projects of tho waters of the flfc rlror between tho sovon interested, Wk eleven stato loglslaturos must now BY J j ratify the pact to make It effoetlre BK 1 1 and It must be apprqvod by the Con- V ? fftMi of tho Unltod" States, No op BB 1 position to the troaty Is ozpocted irons HR tt Mexico as tho status of tho agreement BbA- feetwecn tho two countries regarding BC the waters of tho stroam wtiloh omp- BBjjE ttai Into tho Gulf of California it is BBB i said, has not boon Impalrod. BBBk Conclsoly worded and framed to a HBJ-t , nicety ns pertains to legal and deft- BBL, Hlve terms to make cloar tho inter- BBB pretatlon of not only tho tochnlcal BBBij terms employed but also many com BBBJ mosly employod in Irrigation subjocts flflfljf that had not previously been glvoa a flflBjR deflnlto moanlnr, tho pact, It's authors IBBBJ believe, will weather any legal as- Jflflflj saults whldi may be made. BJBjni Brlofly tho ngroomont roached here IHHg i between tho statos of Arizona, Call- IffJB' forala, Colorado, Novndn, Now Mori- KHll co Wyoming and Utah provides that if IB I Uie ,vater ot na Oolorndo shall be ISpB 1 measured for tho purpose of allloca- IjSfflf tloa nt Loo's Ferry one rallo bolow tho BBS , mouth ot tho Pnroa rlror which la HHBi about ten mltos bolow tho Utah line, BBB that for tho purpose of dividing the Bl ' flow tho states shall be classified into HUB ! two districts, Colorado, "Wyoming, New BBBj Mexico nnd Utah, comprising tho 1sHe' 4 upper division and California, Nevada Ne-vada and Arizona tho lower division. Each division Is allotted 7,500,000 acre feet of water per annum with the proviso that the lower division is given tho right to increase its "beneficial "bene-ficial consumptive use ot such waters n pi by one million aero feet per annum," HHH S |