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<br />. <br /> <br />MR. NO"VI1T.: :00 you thinl: we might enter into a cOr.Jpact <br />liJ:e this 1'ef,nrding the whole Basin as a singJ.e unit, that de- <br />velo'Oment ,roceeds throughout the Basin ~;i th (cue rer;ard for the <br /> <br />law f::,1' the B'O:oro:,)riation 0:: water for G. pe i"iod of, say, 35 yeE rs, <br /> <br />not granting any riehtfol of p,-iori ty to the C).l1f:nti t;y of water' or <br /> <br />power? Can you subscribe to that? <br /> <br />MR. U!'I,j:UGli: When YO'L' sOY'. lJayinr; dtle re,'!Frd to t};e approp- <br /> <br />riation of water, what co you ~ean as rer,ards priority, eYisting <br /> <br />rights or future rir,hts? <br /> <br />MR. lJORVI1;L: Let me stt'te it Bf,bin; thst we recoi'nize all <br /> <br />the ]resent rights in the st~te tiS fixed and settled, that we <br /> <br />begin the development of new acreage ior irrigation throughout <br /> <br />. the Basin according to the law of bJpropriation, tbct is priority, <br />throughout the Basin? <br /> <br />MR. UJ,InIGH: In other words, as I unclerstand you, that if the <br /> <br />lower river could put in an B:?plical;ion for tLe a:ppro(Jriction of <br />thc.t <br />ten million acre feet of water, that,we Should let/go to the <br /> <br />lovler? <br /> <br />MiL IIORVI.r:I,; If we should [i})1ly the v/ater to one thousand <br /> <br />Beres below,' thet it should obtain a pric'ri ty on that basiS? <br /> <br /> <br />MI~. 'J:':'c~nCH: I cen beut answer you by saying that in Ill,)' <br /> <br /> <br />opinion the doctrine of Eppro~riation of water righcs shall hold <br /> <br />so far as intra-st2.te ri!!hts a~e c0l1cerne(1,. but 2.S to priority <br />of interstate riGh~s I maintEin such enforcement Shall not be <br /> <br />to t]',e detriment of the potential rights of tl:e other St&tG3. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ti.L. <br />