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<br />. <br /> <br />..' <br />, I <br /> <br />"\ <br /> <br />That is the only statament I prepared, just a short, conoise <br />statement of the acre2.ge, crops raised, etc. as reported to me <br />by various' water commissioners. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVl<JR: Have you forme.d any opinion as to what the c5n- <br /> <br /> <br />sumptive use is likely to be after the water table is establish- <br /> <br /> <br />ed? <br /> <br />MR. Gi>T'l'Y: Why yes, to SIlDTlle extent, Mr. Hoover. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: What sort of an opinion have you formed? <br /> <br /> <br />MR. Gl<JTTY: ~hy, probably in the neighborhood of 2 acre-feet. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVJ:iR: I just want to est your opinion on this one ques- <br /> <br /> <br />tion that I put before, - whether you thin]: it is either possible <br /> <br />or right to ask people to enter upon the improvement of these <br /> <br /> <br />lands, without an aSsurance to them individually of a right to <br /> <br />water? <br /> <br />MR. GJ:iTTY: I don't think it is. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVtR: In other words, the fundamentbl title is to the <br /> <br /> <br />water rather than to the land and they must be attached together? <br /> <br />MR. G1<;TTY: They must go together, <br />MR. J:i1lliRSON: Mr. Getty, have you kept in close touch with <br /> <br />the development of the District. <br />MR. Gl<JTTY: I have tried to, yes sir. <br />MR. J:i!vlliRSOll: Is it your experience that the low lands have <br />been first doveloped, <br /> <br />,> <br /> <br />MR. Gi>TTY; Yes sir. <br /> <br />G.J. <br />