BOARD01250

• Board Meeting Date: 12/9/1964
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MOSES:

-Gentlemen, I ask the unanimous adoption of
this resolution by a rising vote of the Board.
The resolution is adopted unanimously."

"'Resolution - Silmon Smith, one of the
first members of this Board, served as repre-
s~ntative of the Main Stem of the Colorado
River from 1939 to 1950.

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One of our leading water attorneys of the
state, Mr. Smith was instrumental in the
negotiation of the Upper Colorado River Com-
pact and was one of three negotiators repre-
s~nting Western Slope water interests in
effecting the compromise that led to the con-
structi.on of the Colorado-Big Thompson projedt.
The ter~s of the agreement are embodied in
Senate Document No. 80.

In later years he served on several com-
mittGes working on controversies with Denver
over diverting \~ater from the Blue River. He
r~pre5ented the Colorado River Water Conserva-
tion District on the Gunnison policy and
Review committee which resolved the controversy
over the Curecanti Pr9ject.

Born at Pleasant View, Iowa. on July 20,
1886, he attended Colorado College and the
University of Denver Law School. He lived
in Grand Junction from 1892 until his death
on November 25, 1964.

Surviv::'.ilg Mr. Smith are his. widow, the
former Lina Brunner, to whom he had been
married for 52 years, a son Laird, and a
daughter, Mrs. Clinton Biggs, all of Grand
Junction; five grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.

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WrlEREAS, the state of Colorado has lost
one of its great water leaders in the death
of SilQon Smith; and

WHEREAS, the construction of the great
water projects of the State of Colorado and