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<br />163 <br /> <br />Mr. Dille <br />whole thing. <br />Stone. ~ <br /> <br />said, "It would be far better to drop the <br />Ask that the dam and reservoir be named after <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Crawford seconded the motion - unanimouay carried. <br /> <br />12. The Chairman proposed that Mr. Christy's report on <br />the National Water Conservation Conference of February 10-12 <br />1953 at St. Louis, Missouri.be read to the Board. <br /> <br />Mr. Crawford read the report as follows: <br />March 3, 1953 <br /> <br />Honorable Dan Thornton, Governor <br />State of Colorado <br />Denver, Colorado Subject: <br /> <br />National Water Conservation <br />Conference, February 10-12 <br />1953, St.Louis, Mo. <br /> <br />Dear Governor: <br /> <br />Pursuant to your letter of February 6,,1953, ~ attended <br />the National Water Conservation Conference in St. Louis, Mo. <br />February 10 to 12, 1953.' In order that the file may be <br />complete, should you elect to transmit same to the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board, I am attaching official notice of <br />the meeting dated December 18, 1952; copy of the February 10 <br />report of the Land and ~ater Policy Committee, said copy <br />amended as indicated in red to show the report adopted Feb- <br />ruary 12 by the Conference; a statement showing the con- <br />tributions by the various states for the period 1947 to 1953: <br />and a summary of the receipts and disbursements made by the <br />organization. . <br />It seems that this National Water Conservation Conference <br />was organized in 1944 in order to consolidate the thinking of <br />the various states in connection with flood control, reclamtion <br />and water conservation in general. The prime reason for the <br />organization was the effort of the seventeen western states to <br />amend the Flood Control Act in order to protect irrigation <br />requirements againstnavigation, etc. The .efforts of the group <br />resulted in the passage of the Millikin-O'Mahoney Amendment <br />to the Flood Control Act defining the primary uses of water in <br />various areas. . <br />At that time the Army Engineers,' I understand, had been <br />invading the states' rights, particularly in New England, and the <br />representatives from the reclamation states found sympathetic <br />ears in the eastern states to their common cause. <br /> <br />I <br />