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<br />divisions of the territory involved, may be adopted by this <br /> <br />. <br /> <br /> <br />what amount of water must go past Lee's Ferry. On that basis <br /> <br />it may be we can trade, and it may be we cannot.' <br /> <br />By "trade" I mean maybe our ideas may be brought together <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />on that'proposition. <br /> <br />I want to disavow any intention on my part of doing any- <br /> <br />## <br /> <br />thing that is in any way harmful to the lower basin and as a <br /> <br />matter of principle I think any harm that might "lork to the <br /> <br />10"l8r basin Hould be harm to the upper basin. I believe sincer- <br /> <br />ely we are a unit, but He must get to some basis on Hhich He can <br /> <br />partition the Hater for the present. <br /> <br />In the proposition "n1ich I have before the Commission I <br /> <br />, <br />have suggested that the compact may be changed in any particu- <br /> <br />lar that is thought necessary. I ,believe at least that He can <br /> <br />arrive at an arbitrary figure, if ;you please, for the partition <br /> <br />of the water so that nobody will be in any danger for fifty or <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />sixty or possibly a hundred years, - it may be never, - I really <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />think never, and if He can get to that position we can change <br /> <br />the compact as necessity may require at some future time. <br /> <br />MR. CARPENTER: The suggestion of the Chairman that the <br /> <br />line or point of demarcation should be the initial fact to be <br /> <br />considered seems to me to be well taken. vfnatever basis of <br /> <br />division or allocation of the Hater, as bet"leen the two natural <br /> <br />Commission, _ after all it "lill naturally resolve itself d01ID <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />to a point of demarkation betHeenithe two divisions. <br /> <br />Might I call attention to the fact that in the memorandum <br /> <br />13th - S.F. <br />4 <br /> <br />9$ <br /> <br />98 <br />