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<br />,~I'I <br />.' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />and in your hours of leisure, should you have tlJem, it is our <br />hO);le to ~'al:e your brief visit here .,i1fl of Illeasure &.s well as <br /> <br />profit. <br /> <br />MH. HOOVER: I wish to expreus on behalf of the co~mission, <br /> <br />the cordial welcome ~'ou have given us. I am sure the whole <br /> <br />commission feels greatly the responsibility that has been' <br /> <br /> <br />placed upon it; and the first effort that will be ~ade in the <br /> <br />interest of our whole peo:nle, will be~ tc see if we can mal,e <br />what is in effect a treaty between the dif!arent states; and <br />thereby avoid interstbte conflict. I think all of us who have <br /> <br />spent our lives in the \Iest, rea1ize the enormous waste, the <br /> <br />oritical contentions that have ,,",;:-isen out of the distributions <br /> <br />of water, even in local instances; the great delays in the <br /> <br />development, the in.lustic'e that has been born from it, and the <br />retardation in om' whole country t!l.!"t has followed from any <br /> <br />attempt to plaoe engineering quostions up to the oourts for <br /> <br />a.ecision, as these problems are :i:erfectly technioal questions. <br />n9re we have one of the greatest resources of the United <br />c?n <br />states participated in by seven states; E.nd if we /find some <br />basis of agreement between the seven states for the equiteble <br /> <br />division of the 'fluter, /J.nd have a definite program for the <br />Colorado River, I think the whole seven states will have advEn- <br /> <br />ced its development by at least a quarter of a century over <br />what will result if these Jre,tters f.rehandled throu.gh the courts, <br /> <br />S.L. <br />