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Laws-Acts-Policy Rulings AffectingCWCB and Colorado Water-Federal
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Radio Adress by Former Governor Ralph L Carr of CO-Broadcast 12-11-43; RE-Analysis of S 1519; Introduced in the Senate of the US 11-09-43; A Bill- 12-11-43
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<br />-4- <br /> <br />man or group. This is the voioe of' the West. It has been f'orming and growing <br />in volume ani olarity ever since the first irrigation diversion was made by a <br />man named Hatoher on the Picketwire near Trinidad nearly a hundred years ago. <br />Upon it rests the hopes of our people. It is imbedded in the very soil. It is <br />as muoh a part of' our future as the Rooky Mountain tops on whioh the snows are <br />stored through the winter to bless our farms in the spring and summer. It is a <br />deolaration of' prinoiples as saored to the West as that other deolaration whioh <br />the founders of' our mtion issued in l176. It grows out of' the neoessities of <br />life in the oountry where 'We live. <br /> <br />By the Constitution of' the State of Colorado it was provided that danestlo, <br />agrioultural and manu.t'aoturing uaes shall have preference in that order. Ob- <br />viously there was no mention of navigation or of f'lood oontrol, <br /> <br />Our people have builded their eoonomy upon this provision. They have broken <br />the dry lands of' the west secure in the belief' that Congressional aota end <br />United States Supreme Court deoisions in harmony with their state oonstitutions <br />and laws and the oonsistent interpretations of' their own oourts protected their <br />right to divert water. <br /> <br />Projeots rrAy be oonstruoted anywhere on the Arkansas river fran Leadville <br />to the Mississippi. Under a law suoh as this the Federal agenoy burdened with <br />the duty of' enforcement must subjeot every drop of available water to flood <br />oontrol and navigation. A single project would justify it. <br /> <br />The rights of our irrigators must not be so jeopardized. This is a real <br />threat to our western eoonomy. <br /> <br />Its reality is emphasized by an editorial in one of the great newspapers <br />of the Middle V{est a f'ew weeks ago ooncerning a plan f'or the development of the <br />Missouri river along lines similar to Senate Bill No. 1519. <br /> <br />The disquieting argument f'rQll the viewpoint of the upper river states was <br />oontained in a statement that irrigators above must not be permitted to pre~t <br />the flow of' water downstream whioh will be needed after the ohannel of' 1;he main <br />riwr has been deepened nine feet to improve navigation tor the lower river <br />states. <br /> <br />By the same token navigation was f'ollowed many years before the plow bi1; <br />into the soil of' Colorado. One may visualize the arguments when the southern <br />states witness the diversion of a large part of' the flow of the Arkansas after <br />reservoirs ,have been built and are waiting to be filled. This laok 9f under- <br />standing and of sympathy f'or our western methods gives us oonoern. <br /> <br />The strength whioh may be gathered behind suoh measures in the thiokly <br />populated states to the east of' us and downstream where they know nothing of <br />irrigation and regard water largely as a menaoe may work to our great injury. <br /> <br />The reoommendations of' the oommittee to the Reolamation Assooiation were <br />almost prophetio. The seoond suggestion said, <br /> <br />"That appropriate steps be taken to resist resort to the Can- <br />merCe Clause of' the federal oonstitutt on, through various legislative <br /> <br />
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