Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-09-21
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ANS " ERS
PROPOSAL
Reads States Answer
&c, Upper 3 a sin
Proposal.
BRINGS HOT WORDS
California and Arizona
Flayed by Wyoming
Governor. saee


IENVER, Colo, Sent. 21.-Cai-
ifornia $ refusal to accept less than
100000 acre feet of water from the
lower basin share of the Colorado
river brought hot words at the sew.
en-state conference here today.
After Charles i. Childers, for tie
Imperial Irrigation District in Cal
ifornia. had read his states answer
30 the upper basin proposal, a docu-
n,cnt containing Is pages, Arizona
DELEGATES branded it IAN ultim"t>
UNI and declined to answer the new
proposal until it had been considered
more carefully.
The action of the two states pre-
cipitated fiery address by Gov
ernor Frank Emerson of Wyoming,
who charged that California was
"trying her case in the newspapers
and Arizona was holding back be-
cause of California S alleged ultima.-
nm. .fses.
The conference decided to give
The Arizona delegation until 10 n.
H.. tomorrow to submit her reply to
the upper basin proposal, but in
dicated they could have more time
if needed.
Here again Governor Emerson pre-
eipitated al argument when he
charged that the extension of time
vote was railroaded through the
conference without permitting dis
cussion.
The Arizona delegates said United
States Senator Hayden of Arizona
was due here today and they desired
to confer with him before submit
tipo written answer.
The new proposal would give Cal
ifornia 100000 acre feet of water;
Arizona 100000 and Nevada 300,-
coo acre feet in addition to giving
Arizona 100000 acre feet of water
from her tributaries.
The California delegation s.. re-
port accepted part Of the upper basin
proposal alloting 100000 acre feet
to Nevada and asked the Governors
to state the method employed in ar
irving at 100000 acre feet and
100000 acre feet, respectively, to
Ar'"""" and California.
Childers charged Arizona is seek.
ing more water than she can use,
whereas California is asking for
II ere than 100000 acre feet less
than she actually needs. He said,
i.G74, 900 acre feet per year is the
| total California demand.
California found no objection to
that part of the proposal awarding
Arizona 100000 acre feet of water
from her tributaries.
Another section of the proposal
giving each state the right otri-
hutary wafer before those waters
enter the main stream was accepted
cOnditiOnally. w.
Holding that water for Indian
lands must be supplied by the Ped
| eral government, the statement re-
jected this provision of the proposal.
tut accepted that clause calling for
perfected rights being supplied from
the allotments agreed upon.
Unfair To Lower Basin
The California delegation held tho
proposition allowing lower states to
divide unallocatcd water without
| prejudice to the states of the upper
basin was unfair to the lower basin.
After the long document had been
read, Senator Winsor of Arizona
arose and said that in view of Cal
ifornia s attitude the answer Ariz
ont delegates lad prepared wand
not be read.
" Arizona is unwilling to take any
position that will close the door or
limit the possibilities of reaching an
agreement, he said.
Winsor then asked the California
delegation to state whether they
were prepared to enter into power
agreement when the water question
was settled or whether they would
agree no development would take
place on the river until the power
questions formally were settled.
con receipt OF answers to these
questions Arizona is prepared to
submit a reply and prosecute neeoti.
ations to a conclusion Winsor
said.