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<br />to the lower reaches of the streams has brought into view, the fact
<br />that future development or subsequent development is large.ly em-
<br />barr:lssed by the construction of those enormous reservoirs below,
<br />Therefore, we are brought to this propos.l at this time largely out
<br />of past experience; and, as I have several times stated, to the position
<br />of one about, to construct a largo building and finding it bettor busi-
<br />ness to eloar the title to tho llUld before the building is constructed,
<br />As time goes on, the probable first development on the Colorado
<br />.River will be OIl the lower river or the lower end of the river, because
<br />the upper development will be more in detail on segregated tracts and
<br />slower, and much of it will depend upon the ingenuity and invcntive-
<br />ness of manki lld. To use an Illustration, 20 years ago you could not
<br />have built tUllnols as they do now, I have in mind oue tunnel2t miles
<br />long, built by private enterprise through a mountain mnge, for the
<br />transportation of water for irrigation purposes only, That tunnel
<br />was madc pORsible purdy by the invention of the air drill, by means
<br />of which thc cost of tunneling was so much reduced that it became
<br />possible, but before the invention of the compressed-air drill it was
<br />not possihle. There.rol'e., as time goes on new inven.tions win make
<br />possiblc the irrigation of hig-h table-lands that can not now be served
<br />by wator by modern mechamc!lJ meltns; but those tracts are necessarily
<br />segregated, isolated, and small arelts when compared with the larger
<br />lower dcvelopment, It is to preserve the Ijght,to development, un-
<br />hampcred and without handouffs, in that ~ part that is desired,
<br />We feel that their future development should be settled ancl agreed
<br />to in advance of construction on the lower river of works vf such
<br />magnitude t!U/,t could by any stretch of the imagination be Il1ade to
<br />interfere with the upper development. We are brought to that view
<br />by 0111' UnfOl'Lllllate experience on the two river:1. I have named.
<br />Mr. Rom,s. This Government commission~'wollld not necessarily
<br />be vitally interested in the contention between the several St.ates, It
<br />would tender suggestions, perha.ps, but I think its work would bo
<br />much less tha,u that oJ the commissioners for the States,
<br />Mr. CAHPKNTBR. Here. is a. remarkable situa.tion. I ventul'P- to say
<br />t.h.t it is a circumstance without p"rallel iu the history of the United
<br />Stat.es, where seveIl States with but very little preliminary thought
<br />on t111) subject. quietly !lnG unioodly enact legislation le"ding to one
<br />common purpose of this kind, In the next place, it is to the great
<br />iuterest of th" United Sliltes to preserve the comit,y between the "
<br />Sta,te,s to its fullest degr"e; so that the Unite,1 States here not only
<br />nets, as you snggest, as a commissioner but as a conciliatory influence
<br />where hU1nan :1.gencics might enter into a conference among commis-
<br />sioners mn.king some commissioners, possibly, lose sight of their
<br />duties,' Tho. inGuenco of the strong mIen would be the able-bodied
<br />influence in bringing abouL the desired end-that in, perpetual peace,
<br />and quiet upon that river among all of the sev~n States involved.,
<br />Mr, Y A'I'ES, And also to see to the moldmf: of !ts ~orm so as to brmg
<br />it in JlIl,rmony with the Feclel'lll laws ancl ConstItutIOn 1
<br />Mr. CAHPI,j.NTER. Yes, sir.
<br />'The C.UAIRMAN. The Federal Government has [l. direct interest in
<br />it, in that it hus !nuds that a~e under irrigation or that they intend
<br />to irrigate, , '
<br />Mr. CARPEN'l'J':n. There is a. large acrefLge, or a greater acreage, of
<br />land yet to be served within the enLire Colorado River drainage,
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