BOARD00076

• Board Meeting Date: 11/1/1952
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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WHEREAS, Judge Clifford H. Stone, the Director of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board, died on October 22, 1952, while engaged at New Orleans,
Louisiana, in representing the State of Colorado in a mee~ing involving
vital interests of Colorado; and

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WHEREAS, Judge Stone, after serving as County Judge of Gunnison
County and as a member of the Colorado General Assembly, was, in 1937,
appointed by Governor Teller Ammons to the Colorado Water Conservation
Board and from that time until his death was the Director of that Board;
and

1'1HEREAS, his great loyalty to Colorado and his utter disregard of
self in the performance of his duties during the fifteen years which he
served the State as its responsible representative in complex and im-
portant negotiations with other states and with the federal government
so utterly sapped his strength as to result in a condition of exhaustion
which was undoubtedly the cause of his death; and

WHEREAS, Judge Stone not only served Colorado as the Director of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board but also as the negotiator of the Rio
Grande, Republican River, Costilla Creek, Arkansas, and Upper Colorado
Basin compacts, as an attorney in the United States Supreme Court liti-
gation involving the Laramie, the Arkansas, and the North Platte Rivers,
as the Colorado Director of the National Reclamation ASSOCiation, as the
Colorado Commissioner on the Upper Colorado River COmmission, as one of
the Colorado members of the Arkansas River Administration, as a Colorado
member of the Missouri River Basin Interagency Committee, and the Arkan-
sas-~bite-Red Rivers Basin Interagency Committee, and in many other ca-
pacities too numerous to mention; and

WHEREAS, through Judge Stone's way of harmonizing the forces of pro-
gress Colorado has secured great water use facilities such as the Colo-
radO-Big Thompson Project, the John Martin Dam, the Vallecito Reservoir,
the Mancos Reservoir, the Paonia Project, the Collbran Project and others
which will be continuing memorials to this inspired leader; and

WHEREAS, through the rich wisdom, simple'patience, resolute perse-
verance and deep patriotism of Judge Stone, the relationship of Colorado
with her neighboring. states and with the national government in water
matters has so improyed that turmoil and strife have largely giyen way
to unity, and the protection and deyelopment of the water resources of
the West, even the nation, have been advanced;

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NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board that the death of Judge Stone is an irreparable loss to the Board,
to the State of Colorado, and to the whole country. His life giyen in
public service above and beyond the call of duty will be an inspiration
to those who must undertake the continuation of his work.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be trans-
mitted to the widow and daughters of Judge Stone, to whom our sympathy
and condolences are hereby extended.