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<br />The last mentioned und illl!ortunate policy has not only been <br /> <br />very detrimental to the WKk>>xHX states by retarding reclamation o! their <br /> <br />lunds and developr._ent of their :kJIxxi:tBxi:1lX territor,r, but hv_s tended to <br />,;'. impair confidence in governl'\ent~genCies and has disturbed the comity <br /> <br />be~veen the states involved. It is safe to predict that this unfortwlate <br /> <br />situation oould huve been avoided by interst&te lli~derstandings acd com- <br /> <br />pacts, in cooperation with the United States. oonsidered and entered into <br /> <br />prior to the expenditure of publio funds .pon any of these large enter- <br />~eoent investi&ations justify the conclusion that <br />prizes. /60mpaots assuring the states of origin of the free and unrestriot- <br /> <br />ed use of the waters of their stroams would have not only resulted in a <br /> <br />united aotion of both the states and the national government but would also <br /> <br />in no way have impaired the sufficienoy of the water supply for the pro- <br /> <br />Jeots in the 10\7e,. states. <br />In view of this genoral experienoe, the western states, vmile fully <br /> <br />appreoiative of and desiring a oontinuanoe of federal aid for development <br /> <br />of the projeots in the several states. are generally insistent that future <br />have been entered into (and <br />'" projects shall anI,,' '''' oonstruoted after. and not beforel'interstate compacta/ <br /> <br />to whioh the Government should be party} assuring to the states of origin <br /> <br />of the water supplies of interstate streams the freedom of future dsvelop- <br /> <br />luent xp~"y~dxKNxBXkxxztat without unreasonable and tmnecessary re- <br /> <br />strictions. <br /> <br />To this end the League of the Wouthwest, oo~prising the seven states <br /> <br />of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New i\Iexico, Utah and ,'!yoming, <br /> <br />adopted resolutions at Salt Lake City on January 2l, 1919, in part as follows: <br /> <br />"The history of irrigation throughout the world has sh01"m that the <br />gr8atest duty of water is had by first using it upon ,the upper reaches of <br />the stream and continuing the use progressively downward. In other words, <br />"the water should first be captured and used while it is young," for it oan <br />that'. be reoaptured as it returns from the performanoe of its duties and thus <br />be used over and over again. <br /> <br />t <br />