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<br />selection of counsel in interstate water disputes should be above politics.
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<br />31. Wvoming v. Colorado (259 U. S. 429)
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<br />32. Letter, Delph E. Carpenter to Herbert Wing, Boise, Idaho, 10 March 1913.
<br />Carpenter wrote, ". . . to declare that priority of appropriation prevails
<br />regardless of state lines, would be the same as declaring that all state control
<br />of waters in the .arid west must be abrogated and such control placed in the
<br />hands of agents of the federal government" Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box
<br />24.
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<br />33. Delph E. Carpenter, personal diary, 8 December 1916, Carpenter Papers,
<br />NCWCD, box 78. Justice Edward D. White reported to Colorado Senator C.
<br />S. Thomas that Carpenter "had made one of the most interesting arguments he
<br />had heard in many years," three days after Carpenter had a wisdom tooth
<br />pulled.
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<br />34. Delph E. Carpenter, personal diary, 7 March 1917, Carpenter Papers,
<br />NCWCD, box 78.
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<br />35. Western Irrigation District v. Riverside Irrigation District et aI., filed April
<br />15, 1916, District Court of the United States, District of Colorado, Denver,
<br />Colorado. The complete record can be found in Record Group 21, box 1605,
<br />case file no. 6513, National Archives, Rocky Mountain Region.
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<br />36. Greeley Tribune, 1926. This clipping was located in the Carpenter Papers,
<br />NCWCD, box 31, folder 3.
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<br />37. Letter, Delph E. Carpenter to Ralph G. Lindstrom, chair, Executive
<br />Committee, The Law Club of Denver, 28 June 1923, Carpenter Papers,
<br />NCWCD, box 37, folder 3. Writing in the Foreword to the South Platte River
<br />Compact, Carpenter wrote, "The study and research necessary to sustain the
<br />application of the treaty plan of interstate distribution of the waters of the
<br />South Platte laid the foundation for the suggestion and conclusion of the
<br />Colorado River Compact and the application of the policy of resort to
<br />interstate diplomacy, in lieu of litigation, had its origin with South Platte
<br />problems." See, Foreword to South Platte Compact, Colorado Proceedings,
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