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<br />12 <br /> <br />5. Letter, Herbert Hoover to Delph E. Carpenter, 29 June 1929, Carpenter <br />Papers, NCWCD, box 66, folder 1. <br /> <br />6. Delph E. Carpenter, "Application of the Reserve Treaty Powers of the <br />States to Interstate Water Controversies," 113. As Colorado's interstate <br />streams co~issioner, Carpenter was involved in the two cases in which the <br />USRS made a strong claim for federal control of western waters: Kansas v. <br />Colorado (206 U.S. 46) and Wvomin~ v. Colorado (259 U.S. 464). <br />Additionally, his anti-federal philosophy was strongly influenced by the <br />Reclamation Service's boycott of Rio Grande development in Colorado <br />before, during and after the building of Elephant Butte Reservoir in New <br />Mexico and the restrictions placed on North Platte River development in <br />Colorado following the construction of Pathfinder Reservoir in Wyoming <br /> <br />7. Delph E. Carpenter, "Application of the Reserve Treaty Powers of the <br />States to Interstate Water Controversies," 118. <br /> <br />8. Delph E. Carpenter, Interstate Compacts Respecting Western Rivers, <br />undated 28 pp. ms. in Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 37, 12. Carpenter <br />further states that the federal government's right to control water of navigable <br />rivers was surrendered by the states in the Commerce Clause of the <br />Constitution. Historical navigability of the lower Colorado River was an issue <br />frequently introduced by proponents of federal control in debates involving the <br />Colorado River Compact. <br /> <br />9. Delph E. Carpenter, "Application oftlie Reserve Treaty Powers of the <br />States to Interstate Water Controversies," 135. <br /> <br />10. Webster's New International Dictionary. 2nd ed (Springfield, Mass., G & <br />C. Merriam Co., 1944),536. <br /> <br />11. Letter, Delph E. Carpenter to U. S. Consulate, Paris, France, 8 December <br />1913, and to The American Minister, Berne, Switzerland, 13 January 1914, <br />both letters inquiring about which country was favored in the resolution of a <br />dispute, presumably over the Rhine River. Carpenter was interested because <br />he was in the middle of the Wvoming v. Colorado litigation at that time. To <br />the American Minister in Berne he concluded that "inasmuch as international <br />