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<br />. <br /> <br />'.\ <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />tributary ~o the Colorado River, the inflow I mean, and carricd <br />across the divide and into ~he basin of th~ Im?~Yial Valley and <br />the Sa~ton Sea, 80 that even with the oontemplated taking of <br />the water out of its drainage basin Bod applying it to uses <br /> <br />else;'!here, I understand it to be the conclusion of the members <br /> <br />of the Commission that there is still an abundant supply of <br />water, if conserved, to irrigate all of tho irrigablc lands that <br /> <br />may in any manner be r~Bched from tho stream itself. <br />I fear that }lerhaps tLis OOOOl11'2;ion ;;lay not have an absol- <br /> <br />utely definite and oertain foundetion in knowledge of the facts. <br />fossibly ;ilyomini:; has [one furthf;l' than aDY o.I tbe other states <br />concerned in ail effort to ascertain the e;:act situation. In <br /> <br />1915 there W2S a joint survey ~llide to determine this matter by <br /> <br /> <br />the Reclamation Service and th" State of IVyomin~; through the <br /> <br />State Engineer's de~artmento Ph~ result of thut survey was, as <br /> <br />I recall, a report th~t there is within the Green River basin <br /> <br />in #yoming, including other streams which do not enter it in <br /> <br />WyominG but do ultimately flow into that stream, at the outside <br />something less than two million ecrel:l of land which may possibly <br /> <br />be irrigated by the waters of that basin. Thut is an outside <br /> <br />figure and undoubtedly the actual Sl'ca is much less. Ho','! much <br /> <br />. <br />l!)ss \Ve do not know. I understand tha.t Wyoming has gone :per- <br /> <br />haps further than any other state in <:.n "ffort to find out what <br /> <br />land was available. In the other states it is more a matter of <br /> <br />conjecture than in ;.vyominr;o On the other hand, from tile some- <br />what fragmentary r"cords kept 0i the flo','/ of t}w stream in ';iyo- <br />ming, it appears that ~yomin6 contributes to the Colorado basin <br />