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<br />adding tremendousl:r to the e"pense of thE') pro'hlem. It i8 the <br />AI hope of the Commission thc:t those who present views rr.ay as far <br />as they C8,n, limit themselves to tlle phase Which the comt1ission <br />itself covers, and it is <'lso our nope thiCt in the expression <br />of your views, you will search for some method by which we can <br /> <br />secure some agreement amongst the states interested in the use <br /> <br />of these waters; otherwise t11ese hearings [,re futile. <br /> <br />"Hth that much of a statement, I \'Iill ask Mr. Carpenter to <br />takG ch2.::ge of the hearinp: 2:1d ;n~HJC~nt to the commission such <br /> <br />reClrf'Sentatives of I":':,S state as ,~.lav be williw,' to gi,ve the <br /> <br />commission the benefit of their sugfestions. <br /> <br />MR. C!:RP'SHTER: J.!r. Chairman, it has not been my privilege to <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />intervie,'J any of the parties who will a'Qpf'ar at this he;orinr. or <br /> <br />even to know their names. We have with us today our Attorney <br /> <br />General, in 'ilhose keepinp these !TI8.tters naturally and primarily <br /> <br />rest, and I will introduce Attorney General Eeyes, who, in turn, <br /> <br />will introduce the proper parties. <br />MR. KEYES: Hr. Chairman, aml gentlemen of the commission: <br /> <br />1~y I say. gentlemen, on behalf of the state, that we are very <br /> <br />glad that the commission saw fit to neet here on the Western <br />Slope, as well as in Denver. We feel that here is a freat <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />agricultural community; a commlU1itv with great ,ossibilities; <br /> <br />a cor~~nity that is in fact in this great river basin; this <br /> <br />Slope, in large me8sure, is Colorado's land of promise. Two- <br /> <br />thirds of o.ll t'he w[',te::: of the state comes through the Colorado <br /> <br />I l~ <br /> <br />River. we irrigpte at the present time some 700.000 or 800,000 <br /> <br />acres in this basin in CoJ_orp-do, and we only use a very small <br /> <br />part of th8 Etrcam end after we have irrif~ted this much land' <br />G.J. <br />