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<br />.' <br /> <br />,0 <br /> <br />such unregulated flow was 750,000 acre-feet. Because of wide <br />variations in flow of the unregulated river that use could not be <br />sustained in all years. In 1932, for instance, only 230,000 acre- <br />feet were used. <br />"All increases in use in Mexico above 750,000 acre-feet per <br />annum are made possible by Boulder Dam. That dam, alone, makes <br />possible dependable and regulated deliveries of water on the lower <br />river. <br />"The Boulder Dam was built in and by the United States for the <br />declared purpose of conserving water for uses 'exclusively within <br />the United States' (Boulder Canyon Project Act, sec. 1). That <br />declaration was intended to and should settle for all time any claim <br />of any foreign power to the use of water conserved by the Boulder <br />proj ect . <br />"There are more lands in the United States economically avail- <br />able for development by use of the waters of the Colorado River than <br />can be supplied with water, even if all of the flow of the river be <br />brought under control and used within our own borders. Every acre <br />permanently developed in Mexico under treaty right means that an <br />acre in the United States must remain forever desert. <br />"In the majority report (p. 11) it is stated that 'The treaty does <br />not give away any natural resource.' That statement is untrue. The <br />treaty gives to Mexico, without consideration, a substantial part of <br />the most valuable natural resource of the Southwest. Water originating <br />wholly within and made useful solely by storage in the United States <br />is certainly a natural resource. <br />"In the majority report (p. 9) the statement is made that 'the use <br />of Boulder Dam is not contemplated under the treaty for the delivery <br />of Mexican waters.' That statement cannot be supported. In the <br />absence of Boulder Dam, it would be utterly impossible to fulfill the <br />treaty-stipulations' requiring-uniform-contro I-a nct-scheduled-dehverte OJ <br />of 1,500,000 acre-feet each year. The river is extremely irregular <br />in production of water. It is only by the vast conservation (32,000,000 <br />acre-feet) made possible by the Boulder Dam that water can be made <br />available each year. <br />"An attempt was made at the hearings to bypass the plain language <br />of the Project Act by asserting that the water for Mexico would be made <br />available by Davis Dam. The Davis proj ect, not yet constructed, will <br />have a storage capacity of only 1,600,000 acre-feet. It lies below <br />Boulder Dam. It will merely reregulate Boulder discharges seasonally. <br />It will provide no long-term or cyclic storage adequate to equate the <br />variations in the river. Without such storage, the treaty stipulations <br />cannot be fu lfilled. " <br /> <br />And on page 8 of the minority report: <br /> <br />-5- <br />