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<br />./" <br />. ...1'.... <br /> <br />lJ () u J 8 ;' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WYOMING: State Natural. Resources Board voted early in February to <br />hire an engineering firm to .conduct a state-sponsored survey on <br />water resources of the Colorado River watershed in Wyominl:. <br /> <br />Breck Moran, chief of the,l:ioli:i'<i's l'esouree division, was instructed <br />to contact competent engineering firms which might make the survey, <br />an action taken on the recotnmendatiOh of State Engineer L. C. BishOp, <br />Dean H. T. Person of the University of \.yoming and Moran. <br /> <br />The report, Moran said, would include results of the survey with re- <br />spect to water for irrigation and for industrial and municipal use, <br />explaining that the board felt the state should have its own appraisal. <br />of the water resources of the vast area and the best way to develop <br />them, both by the Bureau of Reclamation and by small projects <br />financed by the board. <br /> <br />The waters of the Colorado River watershed area probably were the <br />least developed of any waters in the state, Moran said, pointing out <br />that, by Colorado River compacts, Wyoming is entitled to 14 per cent <br />of the now, and "unless the state of ..yorning uses that water, it <br />will probably not be able to hold out against lower basin states who <br />are thirsty for it." <br /> <br />*~.***i," <br />