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<br />I <br /> <br />the irrigated acreage they now have on a sus- <br />tained yield basis. The quality of water which <br />they can expect to get from the Colorado River <br />will not do this. The amount of water that they <br />must use to achieve salt balance in their area <br />will not permit the irrigation, we feel, of very <br />much in excess of 350,000 acres. The Mexicans <br />have irrigated as high as 525,000 acres. They <br />have been cutting back in the last few years to <br />where last year they irrigated 410,000. We feel <br />they must come back even further than this. <br /> <br />The other problem that faces Mexico, I think <br />we must recognize, is that with part of this <br />water they can irrigate the year around down <br />there. Part of it is used in the summer time, <br />the larger majority of it, and the minimum amounts <br />of water which they are permitted to call for <br />under the Treaty are used in the winter time. <br />The summer crop down there is cotton and this is <br />important to the Mexican Nation because all of <br />the cotton raised in the Mexicali Valley is ex- <br />ported. This export of cotton from the Mexicali <br />Valley represents 7% of the total export of the <br />Republic of Mexico so that anything that this <br />affects does affect the entire nation and it <br />affects a vital segment of their economy in that <br />it will upset their balance of trade, which is <br />unfavorable now. The wheat that they raise is <br />consumed internally in Mexico. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As this problem started coming to a head, <br />the Joint Appropriations Committee of the Houses <br />of Congress authorized, last year, $285,000, <br />appropriated to Region 3 of the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation to study this problem and submit a solu- <br />tion to the Congress. However, it did impose <br />some restrictions upon the study in that they <br />were prohibited from studying any sort of solu- <br />tion which passed by Morelos Dam any of the <br />Colorado River water. So this did tie the <br />Bureau's hands in this investigation and I think <br />it's quite apparent that this limitation was put <br />into the legislation at the insistence of Senator <br />Hayden from Arizona. Senator Hayden is Chairman <br />of the Senate Appropriations Committee and in <br />that position what he says is pretty much the law <br /> <br />1'1 <br />I <br />