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<br />\ ~ <br /> <br />-nOn! z() <br />~u -...; t <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Texas. This was not the same compact now in effect between the same <br /> <br />states and is quoted here only for the purpose of historical back- <br /> <br />ground. <br /> <br />Article II of the temporary compact of 1929 states in part <br /> <br />as follows: <br /> <br />"(c) That with respect to the Rio Grande, the United <br />States, without obligation imposed by international law and <br />'being moved by consideration of international comity', <br />entered into a treaty dated May 21, 1906 (24 Stat. 2953) with <br />the United States of Mexico which obligated the United States <br />of America to deliver from the Rio Grande to the united <br />States of Mexico, sixty thousand acre-feet of water annually <br />and forever, whereby in order to fulfill that promise the <br />United States of America, in effect. drew upon the States of <br />Colorado, New Mexico and Texas a draft worth to them many <br />millions of dollars, and thereby there was cast upon them an <br />obligation which should be borne by the Nation; <br /> <br />(d) That for the economic development and conservation <br />of the waters of the Rio Grande Basin and for the fullest <br />realization of the purposes recited in the preamble to this <br />compact, it is of primary importance that the a rea in Colo- <br />rado known as the Closed Basin be drained, and the water <br />thus recovered be added to the flow of the river, and that <br />a reservoir be constructed in Colorado upon the river, at <br />or near the site generally described as the State Line Reser- <br />voir site. The installation of the drain will materially <br />augment the flow of the river, and the construction of the <br />reservoir will so regulate the flow as to remove forever the <br />principal causes of the difficulties between the states <br />signatory hereto; <br /> <br />(e) That in alleviation of the heavy burden so placed <br />upon them, it is the earnest conviction of these states <br />that, without cost to them, the United States should con- <br />struct the Closed Basin Drain and the State Line Reservoir <br />described in (d)." <br /> <br />In the minutes of the Rio Grande Compact Commission there <br /> <br />is a reference to the fact that somewhere around the year 1935 a <br /> <br />-3- <br />