BOARD01253

• Board Meeting Date: 1/28/1946
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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It was moved by Judgec ,rohn,. B. O'Rourke and. seoonded
by Silmon Smith that aoting under. the prO'lisions of
Chapter 265 of the Session Lt.WlI of Colorado of' 1937, the
Board approve the appointment of GeorgeA. Pughe, to act
with Clifford H, Stone, formerly appointed. as a com-
missioner, representing the state. of Colorado to negotiate
a compact between the state of Colorado and the State of
Wyoming for the purpose,. and 1n accordance with the above
quoted letter of the Governor of the State of Colorado.

The motion was unanimously oarried and declared adopted.

Thereupon it was moved by ,Judge John B. O'Rourke and
seoonded by Mr. Dille that the Board lix the compenntion
of George A. Pughe as a Little Snake Compact CQIl1Iliuioner
and recanmend it for the approval of the Governor, at 850.00
a day, together With neosssary travel and maintenlilos
expense, to be paid out of the funds of the Colorado Water
Conservation3os.rd.

Upon vote being taken the motion was carried and declared
adopted.

Jean S. Breitenstein, Attorney for the Board, was called upon to make
a report for the subcamnittee heretofore appointed by the Board to devise
ways and means for the State's compliance With the decree of the .Supreme Court
of the United States in the case of Nebraska vs. Wyoming and Colorado and
the UDited states, Intervener. Mr. Breitenstein's report is as follows.

"Arter the last meeting of the Board the cOlllDlittee had con-
siderable oorrespondence and has had oOt!! cClllllllittee meeting lIlone, and
one with representatives of Wyoming and Nebraska. At the first meeti~
there came up, of OOUTse, the question of reservoir resurwys, It
was determined that the matter of making reservoir resurveys, if any, .
should not be _de at this time, but should be held in abeyanoe until
next spring. We thought that the matter of first importance would be
the determination of the irrigated acreage. Plans were made for de-
t.ermining the extent of the irrigated acreage by investigations and
studies to be made next summer. About Christmas time Mr. Hinderlider
reoeived a request from the State Engineer of Wyoming for a meeting
between him and the State Engineers. of Nebraska and Wyoming. The
meettng was held. in Denver, attended by Wardner .G. ,Scott, state
Engineer of Nebraska, Mr. Williams, head of the Irrigation Division,
L. C. Bishop, State Epgineer of Wyoming, and M. C. Hinderlider, State
Engineer of ColoradO, Charles L. Patterson and myself.

At that time the State of Wyomi;ag made several requests
in rala tion to the preparation and maintenanoe of reoords required
by the Supreme Court decree. Wyoming is in a difficult position
beoause of the faot that it made no investigation of the irrigated
aoreage. During the law suit they did not have basio reoords, te
start with, as Colorado has. Mr. Bishop requested that we agree that
the irrigated acreage in Wyaning is no more than 168,000 acres until
such time as they complete a survey. He asked us to approve the
method which he was going to use to determine irrigated aoreage