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<br />OOO~05 <br /> <br />-5- <br /> <br />Justice Felix Frankfurter and James 1.1. Landis in a paper on interstate <br />adjustments, speaking of the problems on the Colorado River, stated: <br />"Conflicts follovred, with the conventional resort to courts. <br />But litigation added confusion, not settlement. r he judicial in- <br />strument is too static and too sporadic for adjusting a social- <br />economic issue continuously alive in an area embracing more than a <br />half dozen States. The situation compelled accommodation through <br />agreement for continuous control of these cOt!tinuously competing <br /> <br />interests." <br /> <br /> <br />Perhaps the best reference source on the sub~ect of Interstate Compacts <br /> <br /> <br />~s "Interstate Compacts - A Compilation of Articles a.'1d Documents including a <br /> <br /> <br />Bibliography" prepared in 1946 by the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Since <br /> <br /> <br />this compilation was published, requests for copies of it from many parts of the <br /> <br /> <br />United States and five foreign countries have been met and the supply is nowex- <br /> <br /> <br />hausted. The Library of Congress advised that it is the only dork of its kind <br /> <br /> <br />on compact making. This compilation was undertaken because the best treatises <br /> <br /> <br />on water compacts have appeared from time to time in various law journals, <br /> <br /> <br />reports and miscellaneous publications. The principles of equitable apportion- <br /> <br /> <br />ment of interstate waters appear in a number of decisions of the United States <br /> <br /> <br />Supreme Court and application of these principles is disclosed by many compacts <br /> <br /> <br />which have been consummated. <br />