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Show RIVER HEARINGS SET AT PHOENIX Hoover Coming West Soon to Preside at Colorado Basin Sessions WASHINGTON, Jan 31 1'ubllc hearings by the Colorado river commission com-mission will be resumed at Phoenix. Ariz . beginning March 15. It war. announced an-nounced today by Secretary Hoover Meeting? of the commission here have been concluded and the state representatives repre-sentatives on the commission are en route to their homes. ' Several different plans for the equitable distribution of the water In the basis between the .sev en eta t SB were presented by tho members of the commission,'' com-mission,'' Mr. Hoovor said today. "There was s four days' discussion on those different plans, and If was thought desirable that the different state representatives should consult fht-'ir state officials before further cusaione should take place. The commissioners were una) mous upon tho urgent necessity of undertaking un-dertaking the construction of the large control dam at some point in the Colorado Colo-rado cauyons and that the development develop-ment of the river should bo undertaken under-taken as a whole in order that its value should be bejt preserved to the entire people Of the seven states." Mr. Hoover, who Is chairman of the commission. It wa.s said, would preside pre-side at the hearings to be held in Pfi nix after which there probably would be hearings In other states. Mr Hoover Hoov-er Is considering a visit to San Francisco Fran-cisco before proceeding to Phoenix, although no date for his departure from Washington has been set |