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<br />" <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />the construction of storage fccilitics in some part of tha <br />drainage basin, ~ithcr thu lower or upper part, without going <br />further and d~tcrmining what application shall be made of tho <br />stored water and of the flo~ of the stream. <br />But in conntJction with tho constr'~ctibn of tho storage <br />rcservoits the proposal arises for USiD& that storage for power <br />purposes, and I understand that thore is a strong pressure in <br />Southern California for locatil'lE: the reservoir thore because <br />they have use for the power resources. Using the stream for <br />power purposes is a secondary purpose to consider as it is . <br />subordinatE! in overy waj' to the finel beneficial consumptive <br />use for irrigation. 1~at is the one vital neoessity of all <br />classes of our population, - that this water 009.11 be put to <br />beneficial, efficient use for agricultural ~urposcs. and the <br />power purposes must bo made subservient to that. So that in <br />considering this ~u~stion, we taxe it that the GOG~ission will <br />have in mind that €reat use which results in the consumption <br />of the water, - th~ final distribution of it for purposes of <br />ir~'ig,'Jtion. <br />Those purposes of stora!',6 can be accomplished, I understand, <br />at manj' different points within the Colorado basin. Th~re are <br />lar5c reservoir sites in Colorado. 1~ere are a number of very <br />18rge reservoir sit es in Utah, and tha @,raatest on e ot all, I <br />believe, is still further down. We Jave in this state on the <br />headwaters of thtJ Gr"en River in the southwesterll part of the <br />state numerous reservoir sites \mich could be utilized at 8 <br />