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<br />l~ <br /> <br />-~ <br /> <br />time he was building on sound bases a national reputation I <br />as an authority on interstate 'water compacts and working <br />out in practise the coordination of policy and activity _ <br />in major river basins and so exercising a good and great <br />influence on national water policy, <br />and <br />WHEREAS in spite of his constant concern with problems of such <br />great magnitude he was ever ready to listen to anyone with <br />a water problem, large or small, and <br />WHEREAS, he was always, in all his dealings, most patient and <br />farseeing, willing to build upon the most human basis possible <br />with all his fellow-men, so that no one who dealt with him <br />ever felt he was getting less than the utmost of Judge <br />Stone's consideration for his problem. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors <br />of The Colorado River Water Conservation District <br />that they sincerely mourn the demise. of their great and <br />good friend, Clifford H. Stone, and give him thanks, in <br />memory, that Colorado was fottified, during his service, <br />in its relations with neighbor states, by many well-conceived <br />interstate compacts; and the impetus toward a wise state-wide <br />policy of water use was strong and continuous under his <br />constant care and guidance; and that the problems of <br />every'part of the state, and our own included, always <br />received his whole-hearted care and attention, and <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in token of their sorrow <br />at his going they direct that copies of this resolution be <br />sent to his faithful wife and family and the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board, and they further feel and must express <br />their belief that the time of his activity in water use in <br />Colorado, will, and always should, be held up as an example <br />of the highest devotion to duty and selfless sacrifice to <br />the high ideals which JUdge Stone had for his work. <br /> <br />Unanimously adopted by the Board of Directors of The Colorado <br />River Water Conservation District at a regular meeting, <br />January 20, 1953, at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. <br /> <br />I <br />