WSP12332

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/14/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #16
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

of that, I have always believed that :the conclusion of a pact

among thoso statos, that was agreeablo, would be tho croatest

possible single faotor in brineing about tho dovolopmont vnlioh

is neeossary for the oontrol of tho rivor for tho benefit of'

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the lowermost aoros. But I have said to, myoelf cell tho time

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thQt the matter of the aotual development 1,s the oooond step and

I havo been thinking in that order. ,Personally, aftor wo have

~rrived at a pact nothing would give: me more plo~sur0 than to on-

tel' very soriously and ernestly and ,heneotly into a diseussion,

if indeed it were at all noeossary for mo to ontor into it, as

to how tho river should be developed to meot all tho oonditions

of tho paot and all the re~uiremonts of all tho pooplo on tho

rivor.

un. lTOnVIBL: May I ask I.!r, Ca~dwell,- em ho exprosses it I

don't get it,- if ho has in his mind that it makes no differonoe

whether the stor"ge is above or below tho point of domarkation?

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JUl.. CALDYfELL, lly thought on that lms boon th"t it probably

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would mako no difference in the last analysio. In tho draft

whioh I submitted I oaid "if storago is provided :::t or abovo

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Lee's Forry," I di,l that for mental olassifioation largoly, to

indioato that if it wore above thefe we oould oasily turn it dovm

but if it had go no down we oouldn't put it paot Loa's Ferry. But

if th" t same storaeo were providod bolow as a r oservo and \70 he,d

tho oredi t in tho bank, as l.lr, Hoovor puts it, I oan 1 t 800 Vlhy

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tha t could not bo mcdo to opora to ,in the se,me way.

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l:~. NORVIDL, Then it rosolv90 itsolf to this; if tho storage

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