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<br />.1 <br />w,,_- <br /> <br />-' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1 tnink 'l/yomin{1; would prefer some method of that kind. <br /> <br />While we wish to cooper~te on this sub~ect, we don't want to be <br /> <br />hasty. We don't want to tl1row amly DEl' birthriGht, and we don't <br />want to have a Commission, on inade~uate facts and data, dis- <br /> <br />pose of it for us. ~he question will come back to all the <br /> <br />people of all the stctes before it is enacted into a law. <br /> <br />With these feg generbl sU6bestions that I have made, I will <br /> <br />call upon a number of citizens of '.V,yoming, who have more inti- <br /> <br />mate knowlede,e of the Green River Va.J.ley, to s}leat.: in more de- <br /> <br />tail concerning the facts. <br /> <br />j,ffi. HOOVEj-~: <br /> <br />Q. You have spoken of the dlfferent rules of law, or theories <br /> <br /> <br />of law, which have been applied to WGter rithts and of the gen- <br /> <br />era 1 adoption of the rule of prior appropriation throughout the <br /> <br />West. As I understand it, originally the point of prior ap- <br /> <br />propriation was a matter of application. In other words, the <br /> <br /> <br />filing ot a claim gave the pr,iority and by dep'ees that has <br /> <br /> <br />been converted, at least in some of the st&tes, into actual <br /> <br />prior application to benefici81 use. Do you think that in the <br /> <br />development of that rule, - that it is in the right direction,- <br /> <br /> <br />that the priority of appropriation should rest on the time of <br /> <br />beneficial application x8ther than tbe filint of claim? <br />