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g Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sunday, August 19, X95X Governor Endorses Confab In Washington On Water CARSON CITY, Augv 18 (UP) -^Governor Charles Russell said today he believed the next step in the controversy over the Ba­sic Magnesium water system should be a conference in Wash­ington D. c. between the Inter­ested Nevada parties and the general services administration. The governor returned late Friday from a five-day trip to Edmonton, Canada, to attend a highway convention. He said he hadn’t had time yet to study fully the latest de­velopments in the efforts of the Colorado river commission to transfer ownership of the' SMI Water system to the Las Vegas Valley Water district. These negotiations hit a snag this week when the BMI lessees said they could not accept the latest contract proposal worked | out by the CRC and the water: district whereby the water sys-! tern would be turned over to the ' latter. - '? « The governor said he had been informed of what hadi taken place during a public meeting held in Las Vegas last night to discuss the situation. He said the only statement he had to make at the present time was this: “ I feel that is the third at­tempt that has been made to work out an arrangement by the C o l o r a d o river commission which would be satisfactory to' the water district and to general s e r v i c e s administration and which would still protect, the re­quired amount of water for op­eration o f the BMI plant facili­ties. “ Thus far, while no agree- I ment has. been reached which is ; satisfactory to all parties con- ) cerned, I feel that we have made advances toward finding out what we ean do and can not do, thinking in terms of require­ments imposed upon us by GSA. “ I have previously advocated and will continue to request-that a meeting of those concerned be­held in Washington to try to find a basic solution to the problem.*1 Russell said he felt such a meeting should include spokes­men for the BMI lessees and the i water district as well as the tall membership of the Colorado | river commission.