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<br />17. Delph E. Carpenter, "Application of the Reserve Treaty Powers of the
<br />States to Interstate Water Controversies," 136.
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<br />18. Delph E. Carpenter, Historical Sketch of the Colorado River Commission,
<br />undated, typed ms. in Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 51, 4.
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<br />19. Ralph Car, "Delph Carpenter and River Compacts Between Western
<br />States," Colorado Magazine, v. XXI, no. 1 (January, 1944), 12.
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<br />20. New York v. New Jersev (65 L. Ed. 544,551). This case involved
<br />pollution in New York harbor. It had been in litigation since 1908.
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<br />21. Letters, Leroy Carpenter to Martha Bennett, 1 0 June 1871 and 5 August
<br />1871, Carpepter Papers, NCWCD, box 30. Leroy wrote from Greeley to his
<br />bride-to-be in Iowa for almost a year before he married her and returned to the
<br />Union Colony. Their letters reflect not only a budding courtship but reveal
<br />much about how each viewed the new ditches that were spreading across the
<br />land. Leroy complained about the back-breaking labor; Martha saw them as
<br />possible repdsitories for drunks.
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<br />22. Interview with Sarah Thompson, Leroy Carpenter's youngest child, 11
<br />February 1994, Pasadena, California.
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<br />23. The Pueblo Chieftain, 13 March 1925 Delph Carpenter was interviewed
<br />on the occasion of Nebraska and Colorado ratifYing the South Platte Compact
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<br />24. Rocky Mountain News, 30 December 1923,
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<br />25. Delph E.Carpenter, From Farm to Fame, an essay written in 1897,
<br />Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 26,
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<br />26. E. V. Wilcox, "The Water Oracle of Greeley," The Country Gentleman, v
<br />LXXXV, no.41 (9 October 1920),6, 7,24.
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<br />27.Delph E Carpenter, George E West, and 1. H. Crowley, Report of the
<br />Committee on Irrigation Investigations of the Senate, by authority of S, R no.
<br />16 of the Seventeenth General Assembly (Senate Journal, 1909, 1092); 31
<br />January 191 [ The report, written by Carpenter, referred to the "Elwood Mead
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