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<br />group in tho Gorge district, puttinG in ~ower plants; and enter- <br />.' prising people on the lower renches demanding aotion there, all <br />acquiring -rights under ,riority rule,s administered by a competen~ <br />supervising agency in En eqni table manner. lie should encourage <br />snoh activity in every section of the river basin. but all should <br />be operating under some general supervision, with power to say to <br />the u)-stream fellows, or the down-stream fellows, "you have done <br />enough, hold on, you cannot proceed further". Develop fUlly <br />what you have initiated; and wait until we can see a step further <br /> <br />beforo you BO on. The Object should be to irrigate the freatest <br /> <br />aree pOSSible. If we can irrigate one acre of land on the water- <br />shed, and another half acre in the valley with the same water, <br />then we shall have one and one-half acres under irrigation. But <br />. if we were to ta]~e the "'ater from the upper basin to irrigate <br />the lower reaches only we would ~erhaps irrigate less ,than one <br />acre, \Ie want to be broad-minded and business-like. If it was <br />riG <br />our individual pro.ject what would/ do wi th it? We would develop <br />it in tho manner and to the extent the t Vias POSsible and most <br />profitable. How, I aay let us do it jointly, just as we would <br />do it individually, <br />MH. NORVUL:. The entire basin? <br /> <br />MR. DORhMUS: Yes Sir; I would not care whether I was in one <br /> <br />State or another, or in one County, or another, but would deem <br />it sufficient to know I was in the Colorado river basin operating <br /> <br />S.L. <br /> <br />. <br />