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<br />, ' <br /> <br />'Oj~877 <br /> <br />~~N <br /> <br />DurinG that ')erioe1 \lariol's att erlll)ts 11ere [Jade to ne30tiate, <br />e\11e1 all attenpts failed. Then in 1927 at a :.'eetinG of the Governors <br />of the seven States of the basin, in Denver, Colorado, Governor <br />YounG of California s uc;c;estee1 an infor:1al arbi tration bet1.leen <br />Arizona, Ce,lifornia, and HevN~a, The four :;overnors of the upper <br />division States, Acaffis of OOlorado, Emerson of :!yoming, Dillon of <br />NelJ ;;exico and Dern of Utah, um1ertool: such infor:;el arbitration; <br />eme'. they !'.l11e1e 2. fin(11n::; '-'hich io set out at page 232 in my testi~ <br />1.I0ny on S 1175, 'J;11ch is a l)art 0:: the recorC'. of this OOfllmittee, <br />and at pace 378. of Part '? on the hearings on HR 5434. T;ley recornmA <br />ended settleGent, but their recommene1ation 1ms not 2ccented by <br />Ci:.lifornia, It has ,d1.lays been ny um1erstandinc that it Has <br />acce~ted by the Arizona rerresentatives at that cODference. The <br />recomnem1e(~ settlenent ;)rovi(1ec1 that l;evE\da shr;L,lC :lave 300,000 <br />acre-feet, California 4,200,000 acre-feet, and Ari7,ona 3,000,000 <br />acre-f eet frOi;] the rJ2in stream of the Oolora(lo River, ano. that <br />Arizona should have the excluoi ve b enefici21 cons L,!,ilJti ve use of <br />the Gila River, in BdCition to the quantities ~entioned 1'1'01 the <br />main streMD of the River. <br />It 'I ill be noted that t;-;e :.ro:)osee~. sett1e,...ent cut do'm <br />Arizona t s claiE1 to.ain stre2JJ "ateI' from 3, 600,000 [,cre-feet <br />to 3,000,000 acre-feet, It has been teJtified in SODe of these <br />hearinGS by California uitnesses t:lat Arizona acreee1 to 2ccept <br />that aHar,l concU t ione<:1 0r11~r l,:.)On 2. further provision that the <br />tvaters of the Gila s:1C;u1d never be sL'.bject to c1ir:inution by <br />any ~reat:' e1e[1,ctnQS of ;iexico, If that be true, hOlJever, thrt <br />concH tion '.;2S incor:)orC'ted in the Dou1c1er Canyon Proj ect Act and <br /> <br />. ." <br />