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<br />*' <br />ftc, <br /> <br />OJ1882 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />\\]\tt\~~~ri\)\~ Reprinted From The (1;/' <br />\l\\ , . ..' "si\' <br />Gel ~ fJ \tJo n ~, EQUAL rtGHTS~'" ), <br />\JV"\\';~~"~O~R\lUO~ ^nQ ~tll ~1l ~tme~ <br />CO~S'i.R~ LIBERTY UNDER THE L~UE INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />HARRISON GRAY OTIS, I88I-1917 <br /> <br />HARRY CHANDLER, 1917-1944 <br /> <br />NORMAN CHANDLER <br />Chairman & President, Times Mirror Company <br />OTIS CHANDLER <br />Publisher <br /> <br />NICK B. WILLIAMS <br />Editor <br />FRANK HAVEN <br />Mana,Qing Editor <br /> <br />ROBERT D. NELSON <br />Vice-President & General Manager <br />JAMES BASSETT <br />Director, Editorial Pages <br /> <br />WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1965 <br /> <br />Co-operation Along the Colorado <br /> <br />For the first time in four decades, all <br />the Colorado River Basin states are co- <br />operating on a common soiution to <br />their water problems, <br />The compromise legislation worked <br />out by representatives of the seven <br />states recognizes the hard truth that <br />there isn't nearly enough water in the <br />Colorado to satisfy their future needs, <br />But instead of quarreling over shorta- <br />ges, the basin states are now working <br />together toward solving them. <br />The only answer for the arid South- <br />west is, of course, the importation of <br />water from areas of surplus, <br />Each year the ColumbIa River, for <br />instance, dumps into the ocean more <br />than 11 times the entire 15 million acre- <br />feet flow of the Colorado. This is water <br />forever wasted, and no nation can af- <br />ford to squander so precious a re- <br />source. <br />As drafted, the proposed new legisla- <br />tion calls for authorization of the Cen- <br />tral Arizona Project and approval of 14 <br />new water development projects in Co- <br />lorado and Wyoming, At the same <br />time, however, Interior Secretary <br />Udall would be directed to seek alter- <br />nate sources of water that couid'import <br />as much as 8.5 million acre-feet to the <br />Colorado, <br /> <br />To protect states which export ex- <br />cess water the compromise goes be- <br />yond the Colorado River legislation <br />now pending in Congress, States of ori- <br />gin would be guaranteed that they will <br />never lack water in the amount-or at <br />the price-that they can now provide <br />for themselves, <br />"The compromise," said California <br />Atty, Gen. Thomas Lynch, "assures the <br />states with water that they will never <br />thirst because they have shipped water <br />to their dry neighbors," <br />Financing of the importation works <br />plus the $1,7 billion of new projects <br />would be assured by the revenues from <br />the proposed Marble and Bridge Can- <br />yon dams as well as Hoover, Parker <br />and Davis dams after payout, <br />Gov, Brown enthusiastically en- <br />dorsed the compromise which was an- <br />nounced in Los Angeles by Northcutt <br />Ely, special assistant attorney general <br />who has long fought California's water <br />battles, <br />"We stand on the threshold of one of <br />the great epoch achievements in the <br />development of the West," said Brown, <br />Governors of the other basin states <br />should waste no time in seconding the <br />endorsement <br />