PUB00068

• Year: 1952
• Title: A Hundred Years of Irrigatioin in Colorado, 100 Years of Organized and Continuous Irrigation
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Irrigation history of Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

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the compact method of adjusting interstate water conflicts. He helped
to negotiate most of the Colorado compacts.

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All of these achievements reflect a capacity and an adaptability
of which Colorado has a right to be proud. The development of a new set
of institutions for the administration of water controls, so quickly
and so perfectly, was a major accomplishment. Ordinarily the evolution
of our institutions requires centuries. However, I believe that the
exchange of water system, reflecting as it does, such high standards of
social conociouoness, stands forth as the supreme achievement of those
pioneers of the poudre Valley, and of COlorado.

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