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-~)- built for It8el:r 'Wl"GJ; ItS sllt. 'i'he~7 are not semired i.,galnst it by tile levee '11]11ch the~l tJ1emselves Ilave built. ']'he gre'lt river is too great-- 'lncl "GOO wElywarCl. It tires OT its channels. With its silt, i.t makes neH chanJJels. It carrles ere'lt quaIJti ties of t;ti.8 s11 t to ItS dAl ta at its ol,tlet across the Mexican border in tIle Gul:t OX CalU:'ornia. It lashes It there into 'llways Sln1"tlIle Sh'1;)es. The }.180ple ot' the Imperial Valley l1ve at the river's mercy. Their works ancl they are in the power OX' a ShlI.t 0:1:" SlIt in a river's bank. As a Greele chorus might say;. ~n(l 01" ten llla s".y, ';'11 thout ever' gettlng contradic tell, "M~\n 1S a b old. unci woe:tul unumal." The people. in Wyoming Hl '\;118 baS1n 01' the Colorlotdo are given to etri ing' cattle on the forest rElnges wld they want vmter :trom the Colo- rado Hlver in order to h'lVe irr1gatad S':JOts on which they will grow green ior~ge for more ca1itle, WhlCh they 'inll drlve out i"Cn:- the rerrainder of their t'eeding '.iIl more :rarest l'anges. This is their sort or need. The people in Calit'orIlia iIl the bssin 01" the Colorado waIlt water trom the Colorado In oreter to 11ave 1rriga teet spot[; on WhlCh "che.y can grow <' i'or 111:3 tance) long staple cotton; anCl it is the ir ad.d1 tlonal UeGll'e tha"c "hat water they cia not want tram the Colorado sh"ll stay W1 thIIl the oanks at the Oolo1'"do and leave the Imperial Valley 1l1lY.Lio31 tea. They there:rore Ilre very w1l11ng that s11 other peo]lle in the basiIl 01' the Coloi'acio - in 'Nyorninf, mid 1n all the rest at the seven states-- 8h auld :oln wlth them in a orotherly spirit to appor'tion the waters 01 tIle ColO1'u(lo urid to cuwh those waters store them, subdue them, control and regulr.te tr.em. thereu]lon thut SOT1e OJ:: the uther lleol!le on the ull];ler It happens reaches ot'