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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />boyond vnlioh wo may not go without a violotion of tho <br />comp2ct~ no matter ~hat tho cause, CVGn though it is a causo <br /> <br />ontiroly boyond our oontrol, thoroforo ,nlon ~o como to fix <br /> <br />an irroduciblo minimum it should bo fixed ~,t a point whoro <br /> <br />naturo will not compol a vio12tion, or vnloro ~O, in ordor to <br /> <br />comply, would uttorly doprivo our torritory of wo.tor. Thoro- <br /> <br />foro, I still boliovo four million feot should bo tho <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />minimum" <br /> <br />1m. HJOV:~R: III'. IicCluro ? <br /> <br />HR. HcGLURD~ Yos. <br /> <br />UR. A. Po J)!...VIS~ I want to [l,[tk Ylhe.t your convention <br /> <br />is basing this minimum on. It is undoubtodly truo any 1'0- <br /> <br />cords of tho past twonty yoars, - it may not COvor tho 0):- <br /> <br />trome, but wo should romombor this, that in a yoar liko 1902 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />at Yuma w~s vnloro most of tho Gxtromo drought waG known, in <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />which tho ontiro southwost, - tho wholo Colorado basin, os <br /> <br />tho rocords show, sufforod drought. Bolow Loo's Forry tho <br /> <br />flow would bo nearly nothing in that kind of a yoar, tho <br />lossos thoro boing tho sovorest, and in a dry yoar thoy would <br /> <br />bo at lCQst normal, c'nd the probabili tics Qro the, tit vrould <br /> <br />bo moro. Wo havo no rocords, practically, boforo 1901, and <br /> <br />bolow Loo's Forry tho 1008 is vory much Groator thon abovo, <br /> <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />and tho flay; gro2. tor thoro than at Yuma, Qud thorefore, I <br /> <br />don't think it is an extreme considoration or 211 extroDO <br /> <br />concl union to think thoro is C:~ great doal morc Y18 tor at Loo IS <br /> <br />Forry t112,11 at Yuma in tl1nt 10Yl yoar. <br /> <br />15th-S"F.. <br /> <br />39 <br /> <br />39 <br />