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<br />Lower Yuma country if we are not careful, why, that land <br />may become water-logged by the irrigation of all this <br />water on these lands, which will have a return flow down <br />toward that country. <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir. <br /> <br />SENATOR McFARLAND. We may have to pump water, may we <br />not, in order to keep it from water-logging? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. You are pumping water now. <br /> <br />SENATOR McFARLAND. We are pumping it now? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. Yes, sir. <br /> <br />SENATOR McFARLAND. But we may have to pump it a <br />whole lot more? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. I am not so sure of that, Senator. I <br />think you are maintaining your salt balance--yes. You <br />won't have to pump more, because you are pumping more <br />than sufficient to maintain the salt balance. We assume <br />under the so-called ultimate conditions it will only <br />require 120,000 acre-feet to maintain the salt balance, <br />so I do not believe that your drainage problem would be <br />any more acute, except to the extent that the irrigation <br />of the mesa lands under the Gila project might accentuate <br />the need for drainage. <br /> <br />SENATOR McFARLAND. Well, I did not want to go into <br />that question right now, but what I was getting at is <br />that under that provision of the treaty Mexico could <br />not complain if we did pump water and put it in the <br />river, and they had to use it? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. NO, sir. <br /> <br />SENATOR McFARLAND. It would still be water? <br /> <br />MR. TIPTON. That is correct." <br /> <br />~ottom of P. 323 to bottom of P. 324: <br /> <br />"SENATOR DOV1NEY. Mr. Chairman, this question, I think, <br />is of so much importance I would like to pursue it a <br /> <br />-27- <br />