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Show Appendix A Report of the Arizona Colorado River Committee Appointed by Governor Geo. W. P. Hunt Phoenix, Arizona, January 1, 1927. My Dear Governor: The committee composed of Mr. C. W. Van Dyke, Chairman, Mr. A. G. McGregor, Mr. F. A. Reid, Mr. Thomas Maddock and Mr. H. S. McCluskey, which was appointed by you in July, 1925, to confer with representatives of other states concerning the Colorado River controversy, has held frequent meetings to discuss the situation among themselves and with the representatives of other states in the basin, particularly Nevada and California. This committee has been handicapped because of the lack of any appropriation to carry on its work and by having to depend upon voluntary assistance on the part of attorneys and engineers with whom they have consulted. Pursuant to your call, the first official conference of the committee was held on August 17, 1925, when we met committees representing the state [sic] of California and Nevada. After a short session, the meeting was dissolved by the Nevada and California committees withdrawing from the conference because, as they stated, the answer of the Arizona committee to a question propounded by them was unsatisfactory. Boulder Canyon or Nothing The principle [sic] upon which the conference could proceed, as enunciated by Mr. Squires of the Nevada delegation, and which were concurred in by the California delegation, as taken verbatim from page 11 of the Steno- |
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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. |