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may be served from tho Dolores will; depend upon a reservoir similar to that on the San Juan, New Mexice, and the same ob- tainsthreughout the upper territory so that tho upper states will be devoloping from,now and flood flows,jwo will depe~d or; upon: the water stored from the , more upon tho flood flow than will tho lowor basin because fifty por cont of our minimum flow is bound to go d01{u anyhow past Lee's Ferry so that it isn't predicated upon the thought of leaving the lOvTor aroa to look entirely te the salvation of fleodi':. The lower area, however, as well as the upper area, must, when it does eonstruct its reservoirs, provide for adequato storago to carry over frem the low to the high and high to low years. NR. HOOVER: What is passing ,threugh my mind, if I might suggest it sllnply as a matter of 4iscu~sion, is as to whether thero is a meaning here. I have a conception of rivers as a series of retaining vessels ef which a largo vessel, or several vessels, will be in the territory of the lewer division. That the primary object of the 10Vlor d,ivision is to secure ,into this receptacle a sufficiency of Vlater te give them a censtant flew of eight or nine or soven million acro-feet per annum; ,that that being the case, their desire must be te keep this receptacle filled to a point of security in that light and that the basis of averaging might be entirely rbversed onto the same basis whereby instead of penali~ing the situation at some point in a ten year average, the thing be; thrown into a position of keeping those vessels filled up to a point which would allow 13th - S.F. 20 114 114 ,. . ,. . . .