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17 reprinted by the Groundwater Appropriators of the South Platte River Basin, Inc., 1989, 7. 38. Delph E. Carpenter, personal diary, 17 February 1917, Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 78. Frank A. Harrison, a Nebraska historian, was paid by Carpenter out of Colorado's Water Defense Fund. In addition to historical work, Carpenter paid him to investigate Attorney General Reed's political rival and to determine the mood of the legislature regarding continued funding of the suit. 39. Altogether, Carpenter collected about 20 of these affidavits between 1917 and 1919. The number is approximate, because they are distributed throughout the Carpenter Papers. Some might have been prepared for another purpose. Most can be found in Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 80. 40. Delph E. Carpenter, personal diary, 25 June 1918, Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 78. 41. Colorado, session laws, 1925, chapter 179, p. 529. The South Platte River Compact was signed by Carpenter and Willis on 27 April 1923, approved by the Nebraska legislature on 3 May 1923 and by the Colorado legislature on 26 February 1925. 42. Telegram, Delph E. Carpenter to M. C. Hinderlider, Colorado State Engineer, 25 February 1926, Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 6, folder 5. 43. Delph E. Carpenter, personal diaries, 17 September 1917, 1 January 1918, 11 January 1918, Carpenter Papers, NCWCD, box 78. 44. At a meeting in Denver, August 25-27, 1920, the governors of the seven Colorado River basin states and their representatives convened to validate several resolutions passed earlier by the League of the Southwest relating to the possibility of the USRS building a dam at Boulder Canyon. Recognizing that a rift had developed between upper and lower basin states regarding the role of the USRS, the timing of construction and the protection of the slower developing upper states, Carpenter was asked by Colorado Governor Oliver