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Show Colorado River Basin States in Denver Meeting For the past week or more representatives represen-tatives of the Colorado River basin states, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Colo-rado, Wyoming, New Mexico and California, have been in conference at Denver attempting to arrive at an equitable distribution of the water of this stream. The obstacle which is apparently Standing in the way of an amicable settlement, is the controversy between Arizona and California. Both it appear want the lion' share of the benefit to be derived by development devel-opment of the stream. When the conference convened a week ago there waa hope that the river compact drawn in Santa Fe, New Mexico, several years ago, would be ratified by all the states. Little it seemed remained to be done. The upper up-per basin state wer in agreement and Nevada' demand had been settled. set-tled. There only remained Arizona and California to get together. Although the conditions between the two states were highly technical, the whole fight resolved upon the insistence insist-ence of California that she get two-third two-third of the water allotted to the lower basin states. Arizona was equally firm that she get one half of the water. And this is practically where the situation stands at present pres-ent Both California and Arizona have made some concessions but apparently apparent-ly not enough to satisfy the representatives represen-tatives of each state. |