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<br />, CHi.IRMliN HOOVER: Then the article ccntinued, liThe unapprop-
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<br />riated surplus of the waters then remaining above 15,000,000
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<br />acre feet per annum shall be equitably apportioned under Article
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<br />MR. NORVIEL: That wouldn't mean anytning, for this reason;
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<br />that we will reach our internal development in our state long
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<br />before we will the deve,lopment in the Colorado River nnd we will
<br />hav~ reached, I think, the 7,500,000 acre feet before the 7,500,000
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<br />million acre feet in the Colorado River ,which is supposed, I
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<br />understand now, to come down Lee Ferry, out of which we will obtain
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<br />prioTity of rights, or prior rights. There will be remaining,
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<br />the best I can figure' it, something like 3,000,000 acre feet of
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<br />that 7,500,000 acre feet unappropriated to which we could not
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<br />obtain'any priority of right and you are asking us,- or this is
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<br />asking us, - to vest the right of that unappropriated portion
<br />of the 7,500,000 to the upper states while we could not appropriate
<br />that extra 3,500,000 of the 7,000,000 then coming down in the
<br />lower division, but to put that back into the general jackpot and
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<br />divide it up again. That is the situation we are confronted with.
<br />Our present ~se,--I have forgotten the figures,- I had them here
<br />yesterday,- and immediate development will bring out internal
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<br />development to practically 3,000,000 acre feet, which, with the
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<br />California development, will reach the total of 7,500,000 acre feet
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<br />in the lower basin before we will have touched upon the development
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<br />of the Colorado River. If we do touch upon it that would bring
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<br />it, probably, a little quicker, but the California need,'the
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<br />Nevada need and our development out of the Colorado River will not
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<br />reach, perhaps, beyond the neighborhood of four or perhaps four
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