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Show GUARDING RIGHTS IN Jj COLORADO RIVER Slates which include watersheds of the Colorado river, insofar as their commissioners can act, have made an J jit agreement regarding the use of the waters of that vast stream. Utah is one of the states vitally affected by the decision made Friday by these conferees in Arizona. So are Colo-HU Colo-HU rado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada. Wyoming and California. Id making the agreement, 1 1 conferees con-ferees decided that irrigation rights, ihoso affecting agricultural development, develop-ment, should have first considerai ion The secondary consideration is given to power. Dividing the territory involved in-volved into two distinct districts, the commissioners found that there is enough water in the Colorado for the reclamation work pu5?Ible in Utah. 1 Arizona, Colorado. New Mexico and il "Wyoming and then to sive a large vol- . ume for power purposes and irrigation in California and the lower parts of ! J Nevada and Arizona-Eventual Arizona-Eventual development of 'he vast! HHH i yv 1 Arn l .- ri7Aw evc m t fr"riir-i in I mm the decision that has been reached and if preliminary reports of the agreement are correct havo been i f-olved so that every state Involved : will have an equitable part in the de-j volopment plans Such an equitable agreement should have the endorse ment and approval this winter of each , of the legislatures before which it will 1 he placed. Upon the completion of such a task. ihe entiro southwestern part of the United States should b complimented . 'it is the first time that an interstate Irrigation problem has been so thor-j oughly considered and so completed ' Ejff solved. |