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<br />002571 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />f <br />, <br /> <br />When my good friend, Dave M1ller, the Colorado Water <br />Conaervatlon Board representatlve at your meetings, requested <br />me to dellver a paper on the subject of Feveral vs. State Water <br />R1ghts, I was amazed, for I was sure that th1s particular bone <br />had been worrled over before meetings of th1s sort to the point <br />that no morsel of nourishment remained. <br />I was, after I accepted the 1nvitation, plunged to the <br />depths of despair when I learned that, at the recent meeting <br />of the National Reclamation Association ln Denver, the same <br />subject was to be dlscussed by Hatfleld Chilson--who once held <br />the same job I now have, and went on to be underseoretary of <br />the Interior--who would take the State vlew, and Perry W. Morton, <br />Asslstant Attorney General of the United States, who would uphold <br />the Federal view. I was satisfied in my own mind that there <br />would be nothing left to say after these gentlemen--two expert <br />experts 1t I ever knew of any-_got through. <br />To make a bad situation even worse tor me, our senior <br />Senator from Colorado, Hon. Gordon Allott, gave a splendid <br />paper on the 1dent1oal subject, at a luncheon meeting of the <br />same assoclatlon. <br />I told Dave Miller, who still lnsisted that I come, that <br />about all I needed was a palr of sclssors and a pot of glue-- <br />that my speech would be not so much wrltten as assembled. <br />But perhaps I can be of some servlce to you ln summarlzlng <br />the thoughts of these eminent gentlemen, and lf, perhaps, ln <br />the course of this talk, I throw in one or two thoughts of my <br />own, I hope you w1ll not object. <br /> <br />-1- <br />