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<br />guaranteeing you havo got to guaranty in the face of tho low re- <br /> <br />cords 0 <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />IIR. ITORVIE1: Those recerds are gone by. <br /> <br />~dR. S. B. DAVIS; May they not reoccur? <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />,lillR. NORVIE1; I don't know. <br /> <br />IRa. S. B. DAVIS, Neither do we. That is why we are compelled <br /> <br />to use the first ten year period, the period of the lowest flew. <br /> <br />There was only that amount of water in the river at that time, <br /> <br />and we are guaranteeing you a certain ameunt of water, and we must <br /> <br />have a margin of safety en our guaranty, - we have no assurance <br /> <br />that the next ten years may not be drier than that. <br /> <br />1m. SCRUGIU.M: J.!r. Chairman, I suggest that we abandon the <br /> <br />the discussion of that six million five hundred thousand acro feat <br /> <br />per annum which would be out of ,the question for the lower states <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />to accept. We are so far apart that it does not seem that we will <br /> <br />get anywhere if this figure is not changed. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />lIR. S. B. DAVIS: No, I don't think that is quite correct; <br /> <br />they are saying they will not demand,- or that we shall not bo <br /> <br />compelled to turn dovm, irrespective of weather conditions, more <br /> <br />than six million five hundred theusand acre feet, but we all knew <br /> <br />if there is more than that amount in the Colorade River it will <br /> <br />go down belov/. This is net a division, - we are not dividing tho <br /> <br />waters, we are gu~rantceing watoTo <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />liIR. HORVIE1; Mr. Chairman, in rel)ly to a fow suggestions <br /> <br />, <br />. <br /> <br />made by Mr. Carpenter, I remember, in his beneficence he allows us <br /> <br />te take the use of the waters in our own rivers, or those which <br /> <br />99 <br /> <br />17th-S.F. <br />11 <br />