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<br />. <br /> <br />~' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />experience teuches that repe~tod use of the unconsumed remnant <br />accomplishes the irrigation of more l~nd th~n is possible by e <br />Single upplic~tion of the undiminished flow. <br />Before we le~rned better, lower strecm users, fecrful of <br />diminished orops through diversion of the water for irrigating <br />upstream lands armed, with shotguns end six-shooters, reided the <br />upper regions of the river, tore out all diverting dums, and <br />turned the water down for use of the vslley lEnd owners whose <br />rii2:hts were prior to th'Jse abOVe. lie now encourage the use of <br />water on the upstre~rn lands, as a better means of water protec- <br />tion for the lowland users, than that formerly afforded by the <br />shotgun method. <br />MR. CAT,D\/l>LI,: You would not assume would you, that these <br />develo~ments in the uvper r~~ions of the COlorado,will be repid <br />enough to prot ec t tte pe 0]')10 of the Impe rial Vr.lley fron flood <br />control, do you'? <br />18. uOR~MUS: No sir. Th~t is one point I omitted beoause <br />of the lose of my notes; We mllj:e no cleim to the com':'llete equal- <br />i~ation of the flow through irrir,~tion, which we supple~ent by <br />stor.o:ge on the shed, where we cen do so. Perhaps I feil to make <br />, this point very cletr. ,Ie f1l[ike no claim to complete equili:w- <br />tlon of the flow b~' irrigl'tion alone but muS t sup;)lemen t irri- <br />G~tlon by StOl'li(;t!l in ",ffectinn full stream regulation, :let it is <br /> <br />S.L. <br />