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Show -139- DENVER CONFERENCE A subsequent meeting of the league was held at Denver August 25, 27, 1920, at which the desirability of encouraging the construction of large reservoirs in the Canyon of the Colorado River for purposes of flood control., power and irrigation was discussed, and at which the Director of the Reclamation Service assured the representatives of the seven States that the construction of such reservoirs need in no manner interfere with the future development of the upper reaches of the streams within the States or origin of the waters to be impounded by the reservoirs situate in the lower States 0 The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: "BE it resolved^ That the resolution, adopted at the con- ference of the league, held at Salt Lake City, January 18-21, 19^9* and the proceedings of the third convention of the League of the Southwest held, at Los Angeles, April 2-3, 1920, be, and the same are, hereby ratified; approved, and reaffirmed* "Whereas, It is the understanding cf this league, from information presented by Hon, Arthur P. Davis, director of the United States Reclamation Service, that the water supply of the Colorado River.drainage is sufficient to supply the present and future necessities of all the States whose territory is involved and that all present and future interference with development upon or from the upper reaches of the stream would be voided; nov;, therefore, be it "Resolved, That the league favors the early development of all possible beneficial uses of the waters of the stream upon the upper reaches of the stream and its tributaries along the lines set forth in the resolutions adopted at the Salt Lake conference of January 28-31* 19^9 j tod that the present and future restrictions upon such development by withholding or conditional granting of applications for rights of way across public lands for irrigation works should be discontinued, and that such applications should be granted with that degree of dispatch which will permit the con- struction of all such projects while financial and other means are at hand and opportunity for construction exists; be it "Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference that the present and future rights of the several States whose territory iar in whole or in part included within the drainage area of the Co lo- rado River, and the rights of the United States to the use and bene- fit of the waters of said stream and its tributaries, should be settled and determined by compact or agreement between said States and the United States, with consent of Congress, and that the legis- latures of said States be requested to authorize the appointjnsn/fc of commissioners for each of said States for the purpose of entering into such compact or agreement for subsequent ratification and ap- proval by the Legislatures of each said States and the Congress of the United States.tf |