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<br />Or) r"'\Q 1 <br />,~\J...; ..L <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />basin stream) is unique in the extent to <br />which it shuts out the federal govern. <br />ment. The latter must consult with the <br />states before launching any federal pro. <br />gram and must recognize as property <br />righ ts the established uses of \'v'ater <br />there for irrigation and domestic pur. <br />poses. So strongly asserted ar~ these <br />local rights that President Roosevelt, <br />in signing the compact, said it -must <br />not be taken as a precedent. Colorado <br />gets 54,100 acre.feet annually qf the <br />estimated flow, Nebraska 234,500, and <br />Kansas 190,300. <br />(2) The 40-year-old feud. between <br />Colorado and Kansas over use of the <br />upper waters of the Arkansas moved a <br />step ncarer settlement with a report <br />to the Supreme Court by Charles C. <br />Cavanah, special master, which" would <br />award Colorado 910,000 acre-feet <br />yearly, Kansas 185,000. But Kansas <br />objects to Colorado's getting so much, <br />and Colorado objects because most of <br />the Kansas allotment must be let down <br />in summer, when it is most needed in <br />Colorado as well as Kansas. So the court <br />will hear further briefs and argument, <br />perhaps for years. <br />