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<br />division anything. We have the s.ame right in the river. <br />I conceivo that they have the same right to the water, to <br />take it andus.e it as any other part of the basin. Wo arc <br />trying to get away from that; get ~way from what the State of <br />Colorado tGrms a " Simon Pure" appropriation state, and the <br />law that appGrtains in the basin always has tried to divide tho <br />matter up on another basis. So that the term guarantee doosn't <br /> <br /> <br />enter into the Quostion. All we are trying to do is to reach an <br /> <br /> <br />eC].uitablo apportionmont of tho water that is ours and that <br /> <br /> <br />doesn't belong to one section or another. <br /> <br /> <br />HR. CARP:;mT~R" Assuming your premise to be sound, while <br />of course I disagree, isn't your attitude that the assuranco <br />for the country bolow, no matter how terrible a drought, or <br />how great tho affliot.ion may be thrust upon the upper territory, <br />which is the only occasion out of which there would ever <br />arisG a water shortage at Loe's Ferry, isn't it always your <br /> <br /> <br />disposi tion .to got assurance for your dry doserts bclow and <br /> <br /> <br />ask us to bear tho brunt of that visitation of drouth, which <br /> <br /> <br />paralysos us just as much as or morc. than the lower country? <br /> <br />If I am in orror that that is your frame of mind, woll and <br /> <br />good, I bcg your pardon. <br />1m. lIORVI~L; You arc forgiv(m for all your sins up to <br />dato as far as I am concorned, but as I said before, this <br /> <br />isn It my notion. I tramped ovor this ground, ovor .every <br /> <br />anglo to every othor point, I think and it is going to be, and <br />is, a vory difficult llroblem to salvo. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br />. <br /> <br />l2 <br /> <br />15th-S.F. <br />12 <br />