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File Number
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Description
CWCB General Files
State
CO
Date
1/1/1952
Title
Clifford H Stone Death 10/22/52-In Memoriam
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<br />.. v<o <br /> <br />.~ <br /> <br />COLORADO INFORMATION <br />NEV:SLETTER <br />No. 42 <br /> <br />Dear Subscriber: <br /> <br />Colorado lost a great man Wednesday in the death of Judge Clifford <br />H. Stone, director of the State Water Conservation Board. <br /> <br />Judge Stone died in his sleep in New Orleans, where he had flonn <br />Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Arkansas-White-Red river basins inter- <br />agency committee. <br /> <br />His death was a shock to water experts and friends from coast to <br />coast. He was reported in good health Tuesday night when he retired <br />early follo-.'fing a strenuous day of meetings, and was found the next morning <br />by a member of the meeting when he failed to show up for the morning meet- <br />ing. <br /> <br />Judge Stone, as Colorado's first and only water conservation board <br />director, VITote page after page in the nation's water history, paving <br />the way for full development of the west's great water resources by skill- <br />fully negotiating interstate agreements. <br /> <br />The judge was born at Powderhorn, Colo., near Gunnison, on July <br />16, 1888. He graduated from Gunnison highsohool and the University of <br />Colorado with both bachelor of arts and L.L.B. degrees. From 1913 to <br />1921 he was county judge of Gunnison County, and then entered private <br />law practice for fifteen years. <br /> <br />In 1937 he was elected to the state legislature as a Democrat. <br />The follo.ving year the state set up the conservation board and Stone was <br />named its head, a post he held and cherished until his death. <br /> <br />He served also as the Colorado commissioner for the negotiation <br />of the Upper Colorado river basin compact signed in 1948 to pave the <br />way for the multi-billion dollar development of the Colorado river system <br />and utilization of its water in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico and <br />Arizona. <br /> <br />He also was a Colorado director of the National Reclamation <br />Association,. an organization in which he held a number of important legal <br />and legislative posts.' <br /> <br />A tireless worker, Judge Stone virtually gave his life to <br />Colorado's water rights and those of the West might be preserved. <br />praise given him could repay the many hours of work at his office <br />away at his job to promote the USe of water to the fullest. <br /> <br />see that <br />No <br />and <br /> <br />He had long been a champion of reclamation, and defend~d such <br />mammoth projects as the Colorado-Big Thompson and proposed Frying Pan- <br />Arkansas transmountain diversion works, while vigorously battling <br />California attempts to seize control of the Colorado river water. <br />
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