WSP03356

• File Number: 8210.110.60
• Description: Colorado River Water Users Association
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/8/1952
• Author: CRWUA
• Title: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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The ninth annual conference of the Colorado River Water Users
Association was called to order by President A. J. Shaver at the Thunderbird
Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:45 A.M., December 8, 1952.

Addresses of welcome were given by the Honorable C. D. Baker, Mayor
of Las vegas, and the Honorable Cliff Jones, Lieutenant .Governor of Nevada.

The following connnittees were appointed by the President:

Auditing

- - Ha:m;pton C. Godbe (Chairman),
R. J. McMullin, and Leo A. Snow

Resolutions

Arvin B. Shaw, Jr. (Chairman),
C. A. Anderson, and Alfred Merritt Smith

Nominating

Victor I. Corbell, Hugh A. Shamberger,
and Fisher Harris

Addresses delivered at the conference are summarized herewith:

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RECENT ACTIVITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Warren T. Murphy - Field Representative

The Department of Agriculture plays a vital role in:many fields of
interest to users of the waters of the Colorado River. Concerned with the
cropland phases are the Soil Conservation Service, the Production and Marketing
Administration, the Agricultural Extension Service, the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration, the Agricultural Research Administration, the state Agricultural
Experiment stations and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The U.S. Forest
Service and the cooperating State Forestry Departments are pre-eminent. .in the
field of. protecting, managing and conducting research relating to the wild
watershed lands of the Pacific Southwest.

Under the Soil Conservation Service, a cooperative drainage study has
been under way about one year near Grand Junction, Colorado to determine the
possibility of reclaiming lands that have deteriorated or gone out of produc-
tion due to water logging and the accumulation of salts. The possibility of
redUCing the upward pressure of water into tight soils from underground aquifers
by means of wells is being studied. The SCS is also undertaking studies of water-
shed yield and sediment production from grasslands in Arizona and New Mexico.

This year, the summary of soil and water research needs in the
irrigated West developed by the National Reclamation Association Committees
on Research was released as Senate Document 98, providing in one place a.review
of our most urgent research needs. Research units of the USDA assist~ NRA in
surveying needs and developing the program. presented.

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