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<br /> <br />to a great oxtont and utilize the water in the upper basin, <br /> <br />loaving only the excossive floods to the lower basin. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: That was the thought. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />MR. NOHVIEL: I suppose it would 1{ark out to that. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MR. CARPENTER: No, Mr. Chairman, you aro in part right <br /> <br />and in part in orror. Mr. A. P. Davis statod last night, you <br /> <br />Hill recall, that do ,That ,10 may in the uppor basin, approxi- <br /> <br />matoly 50 per cent of tho flow of tho river could not be di- <br /> <br />vortod. Our divorsions are above tho territory in which that <br /> <br />wator risos and that water ,rill flow anyhow, that is in low <br /> <br />rivor water as well as in high. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: Hould that apply to tho minimum flow of tho <br /> <br />river? <br /> <br />MR. CARPEl-iTER: Yos , it will. It applies to the very <br /> <br />4t <br /> <br />lowest flow of the rivor. The tepography is such that our <br /> <br />divorsions must como out woll upstream and thorofore the ter- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ritory below the geographic points at Hhieh we Hill divert is <br /> <br />loft free from interforenees and its flow is bound to pass in <br /> <br />any ovent at Loo's Forry, <br /> <br />Mr. Norviol is corroct, furthormoro, in that wo must storo <br /> <br />1-lithin the uppor territory for our futuro devolopmont. Looking <br /> <br />at the map, Now Moxico must develop the San Juan territory by <br /> <br />rosorvoirs on tho San Juan, which would primarily catch the June <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />floods, if I may uso the menth as an easy designation of the <br /> <br /> <br />annual flood flow. On the Dolores the same is trJe. All of the <br /> <br />country, all the territory, both in Colorado and Utah, which <br /> <br />13th - S.F. <br />19 <br /> <br />113 <br />