WSP10568

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/19/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #19
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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without doing injury. The development of the area is ,a progressive,
physical problem, and is manifest from the 'ground, and it is not

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a fleeting ~hing. going by on,a gallop, 'as it were, like the flow

of the river. th~t once having passed no man can recheck, but the

amount of acreage irrigated can be ascertained even if one engineer

fail during his term, the succeeding state engineer can ascertain

the aocurate acreage, and other like facts, but the only ellusive

prOblem in this whole work of these engineers is the flow of the

river.

CHliIRMl,N HOOVER: We 11, now, don t t we get at it by simply

saying: "Promote the systematic determination and coordination

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of the facts as to flow, appropriation, consumption and use of
water,~n the Colorado River Basin~" There is nothing m~ndBtbry
about that. Doesn't

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MR. CALDWELL: I would be able to agree,on ,this outside of
the fact it is going to be in the p~ct, I think your suggestion

is the best we can do.

JUDGE SLOAN: Is the obJection to putting it in ,the pact that
it m.igl1tpos'sibly be construed as a hrench of the pact in cnse of
the failure of some official.
MR. CAIDWELL: My objection is that some statesmen ,up our'

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way might argue that it would bring about a breach of the pact'

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and get L)s i,nto an altercation in ~he legislature over, what. I '

consider a trifling matter compared with the main object of the

pact.

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CBl,IRMb.N HOOVER: All I would like to see in here i,s somEl-
thing that will indicate that there, should be a collection of

this data because when we get to t,l1e longpericids described in