BOARD00269

• Board Meeting Date: 7/25/1940
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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Board that in the expenditures of the contingent fund as much as
possible therefrom should be used to oarry forwardtpe investigation
on the Dolores_Dove Creek project 9.Ild in the Little Snake River Basin.
After discussion the motion waS duly passed and approved.

Director Stone called attention to the proposed meeting of the
Committee of Sixteen of the Colorado River Basin which will be held
on September 4. 1940, and said it was an tmderstanding of the committee
that the next session would be somewhere in Colorado. He asked if
the Board desired to take any action with respect to fixing the place
of the meeting.

It was moved by Mr. Bailey, seconded by Mr. Foster that it is
the suggestion of the Board that Durango be. selected as the plaoe of
the next meeting of the Committee of Sixteen and the motion was duly
passed and approved.

It was moved by Judge O'Rourke and seconded by Mr. Smith that
when the present meeting of this Board adj ouma it adj oums to meet
again at Durango on the day previous to the meeting o~ the Committee
of Fourteen. Motion was duly passed and carried.

Governor Carr at this time oame into the meeting and the Board
proceeded to hear a delegation of water users from the Laramie River
Valley with respect to the situation growing out of the administration
of the decree of the Supreme Court making the division of the waters
of that river between Colorado and Wyoming and with particular
reference to the desire on the part of the representatives of the
water users from that valley to have some provision me.de for securing
water for domestic and livestock purposes.

After the presentation made by the representatives from the
Lar~ie River Valley considerable discussion ensued.

It was moved by Mr. Foster and seconded by Mr. Bailey that the
Board proceed in every 1vay possible through further action in the
Supreme Court of the United States or otherwise, to secure a more
equitable division of the water of the Laramie River between Colorado
and Wyoming and. seoond that the Director be authorized to expend such
money and time as may be reasonably necessary in an effort tc secure
from Wyoming an arrangement for domestic and livestock water and to
.1:rlng about an amicable adjustment between the water users in the Laramie
River Valley and those who take water by transmountain diversicn from
the taramie River Valley for the purpose of securing the highest and
most economical use possible of the portion of the water of the Laramie
River whioh heretofore has been allocated by the Supreme Court to the
State of Colorado.

After further disoussion the motion was duly passed and approved.
The meeting was adjourned to reoonvene at 9:30 a.m. on July 26.

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