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Show sentative of the United States Government, Colonel William J. Donovan, at meetings which were held during the year 1929 as follows: at Santa Fe, New Mexico, from February 14th to March 8th; at Los Angeles from March 18th to 20th; at Los Angeles from April 4 to 7th; at Yuma, Arizona, from April 20th to 21st; at Washington, D. C, from May 31st to June 27th; at Salt Lake City, Utah, from August 26th to 31st; at Los Angeles from September 29th to October 3rd; and during the year 1930 at Reno, Nevada, from January 18th to 29th; at Phoenix from February 6th to 9th and Los Angeles from March 8th to 10th. Individual members or the entire Commission made other trips, to Yuma and Kingman and other cities of this state and to Los Angeles and Denver in attending to River matters. The conferences were attended by the official representatives of the Lower Basin states, and representatives of the Upper Basin states attending from time to time as unofficial observers. The United States representative was Colonel William J. Donovan who acted as chairman during the entire period. In these several conferences our Commission endeavored to arrive at an equitable agreement, settling the questions of water, power and revenue involved in the Colorado River problem, but these efforts were entirely unsuccessful. In the matter of water division our Commission took as the foundation of its efforts the Upper Basin Governors' Findings at the conference of the seven Colorado River states at Denver, Colorado, in 1927. At that conference, the Upper Basin Governors had arrived at what they considered to be a fair division of the water. This had been accepted, in principle, by Arizona, but California had refused to accept it. |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |