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<br />j.li!. CAL.0\1.b;11: Do you thinl: the divine ril!ht would apply her", <br />.' as well as tll'lre? <br />MR. DOR~US: I don't think it would a,ply in either plsce. <br />M.:\. CALDliJ;LJ,: Just to be clear on this proposition, Hr. <br />Doremus, what do you think of tho water in the Colorado Hi,or <br />Basin, from your long experience wi th streams, and the irTigatior <br />with tho,se stl'eams - do you think we could finally accomplish <br />the irrigation of all the land in the basin with the Colorado <br />~iv6r water, i~ pro!)erly oonserved? <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. D0i!l!;MUS: With the possibilities, methods, E<nd limitations <br />which we now have, yes, but with longer eX]lerience we might devel- <br />op the possibility or desirability of increasing the area beyond <br />the supply. <br />MR. CALDW.t,'LL: So you don 't suggest two methods, one to de- ' <br />velop the water in the lower reaches first, and give them a right <br />to it according to their priority in time, and then we would <br />haVe the shotgun method every time we diverted water in the upper <br />s ta te? <br />MR. DUR:r;MUS: llo that would be a re!leti tion of the way we <br />began here. We started at the wrong end of the project, but <br />circumstances then oompelled what experience has since taught us <br />to a\Toid. <br /> <br />MR. CAr,:DVI.c:LJ: Do you think then that priority should pre- <br /> <br />\Tail'! <br /> <br />MR. DJR.b;MUS: Yes, but under proper limitations, I have in <br />mind the fact that everywhere in the basin there would be <br />4a aotivity, Here an active group on the watershed, another busy <br />S.L. <br />