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Show UNDECIDED ON WATER RIGHTS After Grand Junction Meeting Meet-ing Colorado River Case Remains Unsolved i GRA.N'1 Jl XCTIOV Colo.. March 30. H'-rbtft C. Hoover. United States i tt oT lonnoer. .ild last nltrht following the examination of witnesses witnes-ses by the Colorado rivpr commission relative to water rights that the question ques-tion was no nearer solution and ih.it the crux of the situation was that the people of the lower end of the bas'ln . n 1 some cuarantce that in settling set-tling lands In the dower end i.f the basin they would have perpetual water wa-ter rights. Every witness was questioned ques-tioned at length In an effort to learn what sort of pact would be satisfactory. satisfac-tory. ilOTI . T STATE'S RIGHTS State Senat.ir .1 J Tohin of Montrose Mont-rose v. as ,,n I he witness stand duriinr large portion of the afternoon sosiin. After outlining the irrigation fey Stem In Colorado from the beginning he said that during the lis; j-l years the legislature had appropriated $o'0.-Onii $o'0.-Onii tn protect the n-it' n writer riehM During the day. W. S N'orvlel. state water commissioner of Arizona W F. M.i 'lur e s-ate engineer of California; D. E. Carpentier bf Greeley, Colorado'; member of the commission. Colon- I James (J Scrugham commissioner ri Nevada. I!. E l aid well, state engineer engi-neer of I'tah and Frank C BniaraOli, state engineer of W yoiulng outlined briefly the stand of their rMpectlVS states. These commissioners all took active part in the quculamlng of witnesses. wit-nesses. I VRESTR1CTED USE Colorado contends for unrestricted use of the waters of the river, 65 per cent of which come from the snow-fields snow-fields of the Rockies in the stale. Kiguies were presented to show that Colorado put to consumption use only a very smll percentage of the water of the Colorado river, parsing on to the lower basin stales the remainder of the water of the river Secretary Hoover opened the meet ing, lie urged the necessity of nil intrusted in-trusted states working together to per- mlt the commission to reach a satis-factor satis-factor agreement Secretary Hoover I then asked Delph E. Carpenter. Colorado's Colo-rado's member of the commission to preside at the meeting and .Mr Carpenter Car-penter called Victor E. Keys, attorney generol. as a witness. Secretary Hoover and his part will leave early tomorrow morning for Denver, when hearings will he resumed re-sumed Friday. HUSH vi.l I m n l() BItN'OR SALT LAKE. March 30. To attend1 the hearings of th? Colorado river commission at the invlttitl&n of Herbert Her-bert C. Hoover. I nlted States secretary secre-tary of commerce. Governor Mabey Will leave today for Den . i r Due to the fact that the governor IS absent from the state, and also due to the fact that Secretary of State H E. Crockrtt Is In Arizona on sate bul-ness, bul-ness, Thomas B McKay of Huntaviile, president of the state senate, will be acting governor. W ether he will atstua ty have tr, VNlt the c-np.'.. dur-iSfl dur-iSfl tCrnl apf'0firs Problemat- I Governor Mabey Is making the trip to Denver n response to 0 telegram n e 1 ta'' conimlaaloher. Mr. Caldwell said that he .--sued the tn- i , r. Moov"r Ot the ron.mi&slon.l who was Impreased with the govcrn- ,ors famiUailty with the Colorado rlv i "' Th go. nilr ,vll .. flesslon. ol the oommiaalon at Denvr rSo,nsched'u.redn0, where hcar,n ? |