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<br /> <br />~. NORVIEL: I don't know whethor I was quite clear, <br /> <br />Mr. .Chairman. The discussion last night was on the point of <br /> <br />a fifty-fifty partition of the waters. So far as we have con- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />cluded up to this time, as I understand it, we have only agreed <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />that we would consider a' partition of the water, without agree- <br /> <br />ing that it would be on any particular basis. As for myself, <br /> <br />I think that I would like tb have it understood ,dth the <br /> <br />Commission that in the discussions that may COlle up now that <br /> <br />it should not be overlooked that I myself, speaking for my <br /> <br />state, have not committed myself, nor my Stato, to a fifty-fifty <br /> <br />proposition. I haven't any present intention of committing <br /> <br />myself to that proposition. I would like to explain that I <br /> <br />think the fifty-fifty proposition is infeasible and impossible, <br /> <br />as a matter <br /> <br />exactitude. I adhere, so far as I am concerned <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />now, from the information \-Thich I have, to the idea that there <br /> <br />is ,water enough in the river, if proporly conserved, to anS,Ter <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />all the needs of both basins. Jv'Jy idea in partitioning the water <br /> <br />was that we might get together on some figure ,*lich may be turned <br /> <br />dOlm to the Im'Ter states, al'bitrarily if you please, to which <br /> <br />they may attach priorities and it does seem to me that much of <br /> <br />the discussiop which we had last night, if this idea is adopted, <br /> <br />could be obviated, or necessity for it could be obviated, as <br /> <br />taking place in this C~mnission. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Personally, I think I can conclude for myself and for my <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />State what amount I think should go past Lee's Ferry. I think <br /> <br />the lower states, or the lower basin may determine for themselves <br /> <br />13th - S.F. <br />3 <br /> <br />97 <br /> <br />> <br />