Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elections, Resolutions. To be commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans, succeeding U. S. Senator Rice W. Means of Colorado, was elected John J. Garrity of Chicago. Other officers elected: W. L. Grayson, vice com-mander-in-chief; Peter O'Shea, surgeon general; Allen P. Wilson, chaplain in chief...
...Governors of Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and their host, the Governor of Colorado, had little left to settle. Their states are in the upper basin of the Colorado River, "upper" meaning "up-stream," for the Colorado flows roughly southwest. Prior negotiations at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1922, had established the principle that, when the Colorado's torrent is entirely turned to human use, 50% of its volume will go to the upper basin states, 50% to the lower basin states. The four upper basin states then agreed on proportional allotments of their 50% among themselves. The lower basin...
Nevada, having a very small frontage on the river, agreed to be content with 300,000 acre-feet or 2% of the Colorado's water per annum. But for five years Arizona and California have been deadlocked over how they shall share the remaining...
...spend huge sums at once to get that water. The conferees pointed fingers at California's delegates and accused them of unfair bargaining. California protested that the 20-year clause was meant simply to protect one and all from the possibility of demands and projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado, R. C. Dillon of New Mexico, George H. Dern of Utah and Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming interviewed the Arizona and California groups separately, then prepared a compromise. But again the two neighbor states disagreed, California refusing to accept the arbitrators' figures on Arizona's present vested rights...