WSP11289

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/24/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #26
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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the some thinG I don't care to go' any fUT'ther :rrith .tho question. If tl-:..oro is
a difference betneen one and tho other, I shouldliko to havo the mattor clear
if you can mako it clear.

1m. CAEPENTEH: I thin!: tho - if I may so state - that the motion I made

last night covers the opposition offered, that tras that the preamble read,

"The vraters of the Colorado Hivor Systom are hereby dividod and apportioned

for bonoficial consumptive uso botnoen tho Upper Bo.sin D.nd tho J"onor BD.si..'1,_

as follov'is: II:

HR. C,\LDWE!"L: If that is all, I am not quibbling on laneuage. .

HR. CARPENTfll: We are aPPol,tioning the nater for consumptive, beneficial

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use.

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MH. r1.!ERSON: That is ..rhat we o.re trying to do.
CHAm.l\!i\N nOOVi'R: Are you apportioning the use of tho vlator, or are you
apportioning the water?
1!R. EMERSON: We aro apportioning the wo.tor for uso.
MIl.. CAHPENTER: This is not a matter botween irrigators. It is a mD.tter
betneen states of apportioning the wator of this river for a certain purpose.
CHAIR.!(u\N HOOVER: In other vlOrds, you divide tho nator itself. Is that
your idea?
will. CARPENTER: Yos, for a certain purpose.
MR. C,\LDWELL: I thin!, for a practical mattor we are almost making tyro
rivers out of one in the Colorado Rival', to meet a practical situation. We
are dividing it at Lee 1 s Ferry, keoping part of it above and p8.rt of it
below and I believo that would be the popular conception of it at least, and
I believe it is the accurate conception.

I,ill. CARPENTER: I beliove the manner in which it is expressed will moet

vlith very seri.ous opposition, by many students of the quostion and tho manner
of my expression will moet those objections.

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