Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Last week's proceedings began with statements of the latest demands by Arizona and California. Governor George Wylie Paul Hunt reiterated Arizona's intention to share the water equally with California after deducting Nevada's share and a volume equal to what Arizona streams contribute to the total. Governor Charles C. Young announced that California despaired of reasoning with Arizona and proposed that the dispute be referred to an arbitration board of nine experts, including two Federal engineers...
...Vexed, Governor Young and his fellow Californians then proposed that Arizona keep her present vested water rights (233,800 acre-feet) and tributaries (some 2,159,000 acre-feet); that the remainder of the water be equally divided after deducting Nevada's 2%; but that either state be free to use any water not used by the other within 20 years. Asked if he liked this proposition, Governor Hunt of Arizona exploded: "Hell, no! What we want is a square deal...
...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...
Eugene A. Gilmore, Vice Governor General of the Philippines under the late Major General Leonard Wood, will not soon be replaced as Acting Governor General. Said Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of War: "There will be no haste to fill the vacancy. . . the vice governor is carrying on ably...