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5084 to mention to some of the Board members since the Rio Grande Compact meeting, I am completely baffled by what happened. I just don't know what to report to you. Officially everything was sweetness and light. There were no com- plaints by Texas on the fact that we under delivered again some 129,600 acre-feet but unofficially, they had present for the first time an Assistant Attorney General from Austin who made discreet unofficial inquiries as to how we would feel about a 'friendly' lawsuit (friendly in quotes) over the compact. I think we left no doubt in his mind how we would feel about such a quote friendly unquote lawsuit but nothing has been heard, as far as I know, from them since the compact meeting. I think that the fact that there is a year's supply of water in storage in Elephant Butte has a good deal to do with the peace and quiet which emanated from the meeting. There's nothing that solves water problems quite as much as water. ~fuat the situation would have been if Elephant Butte had been empty, I don't know. But all I can say is that it was one of the shortest, quiet- est compact meetings I have ever attended and nothing has happened since which would indicate that Texas was going to take any official position about litigation this year. I went on from the Santa Fe meeting to a meeting of the Directors of Water Research Facilities of the Land Grant Institutions in eleven western states. Bob Longenbaugh from C .. S . u. \~as one of the ones there. It was very interesting. They offered their services to the Nestern States Water Council in the research area if it would be of any help. They made it clear that they didn't want to be assigned jobs, that wasn't their purpose or function, but that if they could be of help in any re- search they merely wanted to do so. On the 19th and 20th I attended the Western States Water Council meeting in phoenix which ~tr. Eckles attended also. I I