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<br />.:!,~~>.\ <br />.:~:~ :. <br /> <br />a <br />.-, <br />C,o,) <br />r._'") <br />~ <br />~ <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />was its usefulness in facilitating a settlement of more <br /> <br />than 50 years of controversy3 between irrigators of <br /> <br />Colorado and Kansas over use o'f the inadequate water <br /> <br />supply of the Arkansas River basin. As early as 1891 <br /> <br />Kansas claimed it was not receiving an equitable share <br /> <br />of the waters. <br /> <br />In 1901 Kansas filed suit against <br /> <br />Colorado in the U. S. Supreme Court asking for relief <br /> <br />from injury. The court's decision in 1907 was in <br /> <br />Colorado's favor, holding that the development in <br /> <br />Colorado had not yet reached the point where Kansas had <br /> <br />cause for action. but the court concluded that it <br /> <br />might sometime in the future. Private irrigation <br /> <br />interests in Kansas brought suits in 1910 and 1916 in <br /> <br />the federal court for the district of Colorado against <br /> <br />Colorado water administration officials for the purposes <br /> <br />of establishing relative priorities under the Colorado <br /> <br />priority system. These suits and the failure of <br /> <br />compact negotiations caused Colorado to institute a <br /> <br />suit in the U. S. Supreme Court against Kansas for the <br /> <br />purpose of requiring Kansas to enforce upon water users <br /> <br />the decree of 1907. This case was pending from 1928 <br /> <br />until 1943, and during this period considerable effort <br />