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<br />f ' <br /> <br />... .9.. <br /> <br />0].18':l7 <br /> <br />-?6- <br /> <br />States of Color8c',o, '!~'or~ins, Ut2h, l'Jex j.;exico, 2nd Arizona <br />sU))Jorted the Treaty. California op:)osec1, and Has Joined by <br />the State of Iievada after the Gic;ning of the Treaty, <br />In 1943 iiexico had increased her uses of the ',Taters of the <br />Colorac10 River, "ith the encournBe[Jent anc1 /:',ic1, and to the <br />financial c:'rofi t of the Imljerial IrriGation District of California, <br />to 1,800,000 acre-feet per annum. Our encineers stated that <br />there are approxir.Jately a ::Jillion acres of land in liexico l!hich <br />could be real,ily irrie;ated 'Ti th the "aters of the Colorado <br />R1ver; and He feltth2.t unless an over-all all-time limit to <br />the iiexican claims of the Colorado River to the 101les t possible <br />limit, could be fixed by Treaty ':ith ;,iexico imr.:ecUately Eexico <br />micht increase her uses to some five or six Dillion acre-feet of <br />uater, and then invol:e the i~rovisions of the In~er...Anlerican Treaty <br />of Arbitration, uhich h8.Cc been ratified in 1935, iTe felt that <br />unless immediate settlement uas made by treaty and agreement "!ith <br />iiexico, iiexico micht at <COLle future time assert claim to ,~he <br />quantity of uater uhich she ,JaS usinG' at such future tiDe. <br />By the year 1940 Hoover Dam had been completed and was <br />filled. In 19~1, accorcUnc to the encineers of Arizona, the <br />Colorado River uaters flm,'ed across the HeJ:ican borc1.er in the <br />quantity of 12,891,900 acre-feet, In 1942 it uas in the amount <br />11,748,900 acre-feet; and in 1943 10,367,200 acre-feet. It <br />uas bacl: up clos e to the ,run-off prior to the cons truction of <br />Hoover Dai'!!, unL j,;exico HRS ra;-,lclly incree.sinr; her uses, <br />I testifie(1. for Arizona on the Treat~' hearin~s before the <br />Forei;:;n Relations Co,',:,~ittee in :945. (paGes 248-307) I fileu in <br />