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even the fifty-fifty preposition, so t~ese fi~lres havo not been so interesting to mo as they have to some members of the Commis- sion, perhaps. . I think that very prebably the figures insisted upon for tho upper states are ~uite a long way frem accurate or propor. . ITe havo four million acres, according to tho Roclamation Sorvice ostimato, up thero to irrigate in the basin, and they sayan acre foot and a half is enough for an acre of land. That gives our re~uiroments as six millien. Now, ultimatcly that may be what we will re~uire, but there is a very groat chanee, llr. Chair- man, that our re~uirements will not b6 en that basis. A fairer propesition would be to prepare, in each basin, a diversion estimate that will be necessary, in which event we would need to divert up thsro at least three acre feot per aere, whioh instead of giving us a water rc~uirement of six million, would make it . twelve million. If wo oould divert all of that water at onee, . our ro~uiremonts weuld be twelvo million, excopt that wo have semo roturn flew now sot up. If 1'10 yould divert all of that , water at once, we would divert twelve million acro foot on the four million aeres of land, and theni, whon the return flow is . sot up vie would got back a part of that p,mount, but until it doos Got up 1'10 would noed to havo wO,tor parcolod out to us on the' basis of that diversion. Just wh"tjour actual noods "ro no ono is able to say. Tho Reclamation Sorvico canlt say, WQ can't 8ay, . but it is down to tho irroduciblb minimum whbn it is mado an acro foot arid a half por 'acre. Perhaps ,ten million acre foot may 17th-S .1'. 108 20