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Show Mure Lovers Ready To Endorse River Project Echo Deletion Brings Enemy To West's Camp TheTe was some good news in Washington last Monday as two major victories were won by backers of the Upper Colorado River project. First, the powerful. Council of Conservationists shifted its stand and came out in favor of the big river development bill. The nationally-influential conservation group has previously opposed the bill. Secondly, the United States Supreme Court turned down a bid from California for a rehearing on the court decision which exempted ex-empted Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico from a water suit pending between California and Arizona. The most significant action Monday was the backing of the Upper Colorado bill by the conservationist con-servationist council, which represents rep-resents every major conservation group in the nation. This group, which had' stirred up nationwide opposition to the measure, fought the bill when it included a proposed dam at Echo Park in the Dinosaur National' Nation-al' Monument. With the Echo Park project deleted, the conservationist group withdrew its opposition. The Supreme Court decision was also hailed as' a forward step s'nce the bill could have been tied up indefinitely had the Upper Basin states been tied in to the lower basin water fight. |