Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-07-23
CAL|FORNANS HOPE
FOR RIVER COMPACT
Prediction That Agreement
Between Arizona and
Other States Will Be
Reached Following Denver
Meeting.
Nevada State Journai)

AEN6Ndud oldle JOuIudll
Hope that an agreement be-
tween Arizona and other lower
basin states on the Colorado ri
yer may be reached at confer
ence, tentatively planned for
August 10 in Denver, was express
ed yesterday by members of a
southern California commission,
who stopped in Reno after visit
ing the states primarily interest
ed In conservation AMI CONTROL
OF the waters of the Colorado.
The members of the group were
Earl c. Pound, president of the
Imperial Valley irrigation dis
trict and designated by Governor
c. c. Young as one of the men
to he appointed as a member of
the Colorado river commission for
California;; w. B. Mathews, chief
counsel of the department of
water and power of Los Angeles;
T. A. Painter, assistant electrical
engineer for the bureau of power
and light of Los Angeles; Ralph
H. Criswell, Colorado river agent
of the department of water and
/ power, a former member of the
city council of Los Angeles; w.
]. Dowd, chief engineer of the
{ Imperial district; Charles L.
Childress, chief counsel for the
district, and F. H. McIver, sec
retary and treasurer.
The members of the commits
sion said they had been on a
friendly visitation" to the four
upper basin states, stopping at
Santa Fe, Denver, Salt Lake
City and Reno.
'In all states we found a
friendly attitude toward the great
desire to see the compact of the
seven states ratified by Arizona"
! Offers of assistance to Calf
ornia and Arizona in terminating
the differences of those two
states relative to agreements for
distribution of benefits to accrue
from construction of the proposed
dam, were made by the upper
states, the visitors said.
California feels friendly to-
ward Nevada and appreciative of
the efforts of Nevada in forward
ing plans for the dam. At no
time since the seven state pact
was prepared and signed has
there been any serious differen-
ces of opinions between the offic-
ers of Nevada and California"
Pound stated.
There has been nothing but
the most harmonious relations
between the two states he con-
tinued.
"In 1925 Nevada and California
agreed on a proposal for a three
state compact, formulated by j.
G. Scrugham of Nevada, but the
pact was rejected by Arizona"
/ The upper states, the Califor-
nian added, have offered to act
as judges at the coming confer
ences between the lower states.
/ If the lower states can reach an
agreement, assurances were CIV
en- to the travellers that the upper
states will fight for the legisla-
ton for the dam in congress.
The visitations were said to
have been entirely satisfactory,
and probably ~ have paved the
way for concrete action at the
coming conference,
Governor Young of California
will be in attendance at the Den
! yer meeting, it was stated.
Yesterday the men held a con-
ference with Governor Balzar,
George w. Malone, state engineer,
True Vencill and other officials,
which was described as very sat
isfactory.
There was no thought at the
conference, Criswell said, of try
ing to enter into any agreement
with Nevada.
The party left Reno last night
to go to Sacramento to make an
unofficial report to Governor
Young and the members of the
California water commission.