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<br />.N 0"\>;7) arc L1lCl'C allY questlOlls you WQuHl lIRe La n~K me. r~.specT,~ng
<br />this matter? I a.pprccin.to very much tho OppOl'lllluLy 01 chSCU::;SlUg
<br />it Lhis mOl'ning, pI:imarily, ~s I,l'eapze, fur .tho purposl". of the
<br />recoru and would hIm La go Into It as exhaustIvely fiR possIble, be~
<br />cau~e I;ty (,.llgn.g~.mellts c(~mpcl me .to ~eave in. the n~orni~lg. r . .
<br />If I may agaIIl .urge It, the \)rl11Clpa~ thought IS th~s:. flus, IS all
<br />att.empt, and I tlUllk the first III the hIstory of the Umtcll SLate.s,
<br />UpDll the part of seven States, a.nd the only seven State,s interes~ed,
<br />LO scWe by diplomatic and friendly methods, in advance of possIble
<br />contention, nIl :future controversy wInch mIght otherWIse l\l'l::ie UPO)l
<br />the third la.rgest river in America. " ,
<br />Mr, Bo!,",s, Probably the only one 1
<br />Mr. CAHl'ENTER. Y cs, sir. . . .
<br />Mr, Y AT'ES, Have you any Idea how long It would take In the
<br />ma.tter of hcr\'l'ings, etc.? .
<br />Mr, CAIlPF.N1'Ell, I will say, frankly, that the physical conditions
<br />lend themselves to expeditious settlement, and it may be that the
<br />delibcmtiOIls of the commission will be quite brief.
<br />Mr, YATES, You do not look for long-sustained contentions'/
<br />Mr, CAllrEN'l'Ell, No; I do not. To make myself clear, this is the
<br />opposite ill l)hysical condition from the ~rdill.n,ry western s~reu.m.
<br />'l'alce the Hio Grande, for exa.mple. It l'lse.s In the mountalllS of
<br />New Mexico and then diminishes as it flows tow,u-d the Gulf-to-
<br />ward EI Paso-so thaL for the moment, as it were, if all of the
<br />Colorado IInd New Mexico territory were developed it would tem.
<br />pOl;"al'iIy absorb the waleI' in the strea.m until the return water bega11
<br />to opcm!:e, bUL the way the land is it would lick up the stream,
<br />com-mIne the slream in the first application.
<br />011 the Colorado River the general shape or configura,tioll of the
<br />COUll try is slich tlUlt the rivers cut narrow valleys, in thc main,
<br />For example, as I said before yon came in, the State of Colorado
<br />furn ishes GO per ccnt of (,he water of that stream, Congressman
<br />Tay lor's district furnishes GO per cent of the water that reaches the
<br />Gulf of Californi<L, Yet, with all th<Lt draina....e and with all the
<br />tUIlIlels that we could possibly'put through to t.ilie up little dribbles
<br />of water that <Lre a,vailable, we can not possibly irrigate mq~"1.tha]l
<br />two or three million acre.s, at. the outside, when the water ~/~~
<br />10,500,000 acre-feet, as it is right now; so that a, great majority of
<br />the water of the Colorado River must necessarily pass below' the
<br />lifi{~ unused.
<br />Mr, GOODYKOONTZ, In your statement you referred to the fad
<br />that this "ivcr forms the boundary line between a part of the State
<br />of Arizona and southern California--
<br />Mr, CAm'lmTEll. Lower California, '
<br />Mr. GoOnYROONTZ. Botween Arizona and Lower California, In
<br />~iexico, and that in that respect an internl1ti<;mal que.stion presents
<br />Ilself, and also that under the treaty that rIver was regarded as
<br />navig"ble on the frontier, Now, tell us what you know about the
<br />navigabili(;y or tho river within the United States, I want to know
<br />Wh~lt hen.ring the commr,rce clause would have on the question.
<br />.M:. CAn"PTr,N'~'ER. l:ho Colorado Riye; is, in !he ~na.in, nonnavigable
<br />WIUllll the TJlllted Slates, Some tnfhng n"vIgatlOn may take place
<br />from Needles south toward the international boundm'y, N:wi....ation
<br />between the Gulf or Californi" and that. part within the, United
<br />StaLes has been cut, off by the construction by the Reclamation
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