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<br /> <br />1ill. NORVIEL: I still insist that it is a serious problem <br /> <br />to work out, and I dontthink it will work by the rule ef three <br /> <br />as I know it. <br /> <br />Vffi. C~nPENTBR, For my part, I don't see any suoh great <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />objection to the minimum flow as such, if it bo oontemplatod <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />that tho drouth might be still more sovero than any herotofore <br /> <br />known, that might be safe Buarded by fixing a minimum, and then <br /> <br />providing, in certain oxtremo conditions, or failure of <br /> <br />precipitation to a cortain amount, that the minimum might be <br /> <br />more reduced. Precipitation generally in tho country is more <br /> <br />easily ascertained than the flow, but I rather dread that <br /> <br />because it adds- it burdons the wholo agrooment with detail. <br /> <br />Regarding annual ~vorages it mi~ht bo possiblo to arrive at <br /> <br />an annual average on the 20 year record. It is perfectly <br /> <br />possible at Yuma to havo an averago annually, but if there <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />be doubt in that reGard that could bo (l temporary figuro and <br /> <br />aotual gaugings could tako place at Loe's Forry as well as <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Laguna and other points for the noxt ten yoars. TIo oould as- <br /> <br />cortain tho result from thoso figures taken as an average, <br /> <br />which puts off the final detormination to a later date. The <br /> <br />river itself is so 13rgo and its flow so bounteous there seems <br /> <br />to bo more latitudo in this river than usually obtains. <br /> <br />lill. NORVIEL: What is tho objeotion, any vmy, to a short <br /> <br />poriod of throo,yea~s ? <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />lill~ CLRP~NTER3 You cant get a true averago in three yoars~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />For examplo I may illustrato in t~is waY4 You, as an official, <br /> <br />l5th-S.F. <br />16 16 <br /> <br />.L <br />