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<br />-6- <br /> <br /> <br />the rIver ere l!wlined "GO suy: "It' OU1' brothers ",long the lciwer <br /> <br /> <br />reuChes aT. the rIver should get large amoUlltG of W!itel' in reser- <br /> <br /> <br />voirs cloVln there, they will d,raw U!',OI1 tlltit watel'. Today they have <br /> <br /> <br />barely enou'-h wa.:er r:or tIlelr present' J'ields. \'lith new reservoirs, <br /> <br /> <br />they will layout new :Delds 8.nd tlleel'W111 :018 new claims on the <br /> <br /> <br />l'low 0:1' tIle Colorado :(01' wa1;8rin,:~ those IIelds. '['hen when we want <br /> <br /> <br />to mu.ke new l'lelds or: our own <llong the upper reaCIleS oJ' the Colo <br /> <br /> <br />rad.o, we may t'lnd. tha t lYe may have to e;o into court somevlhere <br /> <br /> <br />and del'end ourselyes against ,these urothers, who may then sa"l that <br /> <br /> <br />they have taken out 'prior appropriations' on the water which we <br /> <br /> <br />want to use--water tllat runs rlf;llt b> our llOme's ancl hearths. <br /> <br /> <br />Whose wa tel' is it? We must think." <br /> <br /> <br />It would. be e:xtermely unnatn,al ir: they clId. not. ,They do. But <br /> <br /> <br />to encourage them to tJunk roaster, the ,Federal Government enacted <br /> <br /> <br />a statute und.er WhICh r.:,,'. Hoover was ohosen to JJreside over the <br /> <br /> <br />Colorado Hiver Commis~~lon and Its d.eleg;ltes t'rom the SeVel] states, <br /> <br /> <br />wi th a p.r01i:ision expressed. or understooo. tllat t)18 seven states mUst <br /> <br /> <br />sign a treaty betore tlus year 18 out. What IS now &tteLlptod. In <br /> <br /> <br />the caBe ot' tlle jH'0}10Sed tre8-"ty reg'",rd.1nr, the 'wa tel'S o:t' the Colo- <br /> <br /> <br />rado IS that the delega"tes aI' :?even states shall :treely and in- <br /> <br /> <br />d.epenclently SIgn ~t ancl that '"then tlle leg1s1;d',1U'eB oj' seven stutes <br /> <br /> <br />shall ITeely a,nd. uJClepel1den"tly SIgn 1-G and th2t tl18J1 the legisla- <br /> <br /> <br />tures of seven states shall freely a'ncl 1ndepeJldently rat1I'o' it <br /> <br /> <br />and -~hat then '"he Federal Government slwll ap~~;rove ,it., <br /> <br /> <br />MEAN\'rHIT.E Senator Johnson. o:t Calil'orD1a, and Congl'essmun "wing, <br /> <br /> <br />0:':" Call1:orn~a, appDoaching tlU8 :tield aT orotherhoocl bel Q flElnk <br /> <br /> <br />movement and statIoning themselves :tal' legIslative purposes at a <br /> <br /> <br />spot called. Boulder Canyon on ~he course o:t the ColoraeloRiver, <br /> <br /> <br />,where it x'orms the :tront1J;e between Arizona ancl Hevada, have cleclar <br />