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Show CGLCiliBO RIVER PACT IS SIGNED DOCUMENT FIRST OF ITS KIND WILL WEATHER ANY LEGAL ASSUALT AUTHORS BELIEVE Seven Southwestern Commonwealths Agree to Document Drawn In Three Week's Conference of Colorado River Commission Santa Fo. The Colorado river treaty, the first document of its kind, was agreed to toy reprsen-tatives of seven Southwestern states and of the federal government. The pact was signed here following a three weeks' conference between members of the Colorado river commission, com-mission, and provides for the distribution distribu-tion for irrigation and water development develop-ment projects of the waters of the river between the seven interested. Seven state legislatures must now ratify the pact to make it effective and it must toe approved by the Congress Con-gress of the United States. No opposition op-position to the treaty is expected from Mexico as the status of the agreement between the two countries regarding the waters of the stream which empties emp-ties into the Gulf of California it is said, has not been impaired. Concisely worded and framed to a nicety as pertains to legal and definitive defi-nitive terms to make clear the interpretation inter-pretation of not only the technical terms employed tout also many commonly com-monly employed- In irrigation subjects that had not previously b-e-en given a definite meaning, the pact, it's authors believe, will weather any legal assaults as-saults which may be made. Briefly the agreement reached here between the states of Arizona, California, Cali-fornia, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Mexi-co, Wyoming and Utah provides that the water of the Colorado shall toe measured for the purpose of allloea-tion allloea-tion at Lee's Ferry one mile below the mouth of the Parea river which is about ten miles Ibelow the Utah line, that for the purpose of dividing the now the states shall be classified into two districts, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah, comprising the upper division and California, Nevada Ne-vada and Arizona the lower division. Each division is allotted 7,500,000 acre feet of water per annum with the proviso that the lower division is given the right to increase its "beneficial "bene-ficial consumptive use of such waters by one million acre feet per annum." |