THE STATES: The Dry Quarter

The Governors of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming govern almost one-tenth of all North America, more than one-quarter of the continental U. S. As to rainfall, theirs is the dryest quarter. They were an important group of political potentates when they all came together last week at Denver.

After shaking hands all round, they resorted to Denver's State Office Building, assumed their poker faces and resumed their long, long discussion of a problem vital to all, a problem in water, the main stream of water in all the...

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