WSP01835

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 11/11/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #11
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

We do not have and cannot ebtain, except by long years

of study hereafter, basic data ,upon which towerk. Between

states in either of these great divisions very different

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principles should be applied on oach different and distinct

river, and may have to be applied. The facts arc different.

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Fer illustration, some of the rivers rise in the mountains

to withor away on tho plains beforo they roach tho lowor

states within a division. Others are increasing rivers as they

flow out from their eriginal source, The territory is new, the

conditions will develep and if allowed to devolop naturally

will call for the utimate solution betwoon the. interested

statos as respects any particular river.

In preparing the draft which I havo submitted, I first

proceeded upon the theory of the individual allecation.

My advisors and I myself found ourselves in the position of

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saying that, as respects a virgin territory, we would bo
called. upon to fix an artificial limitation that might work

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great injustice lator, The river is ne\.), tho territory is now,

and, thereby, after studying stream after stream that flowed

out from the mouth it became ovident that it would be unwise

and imprudent te attempt te deal definitely with each detailed

river, - each individual tributary stream.

Proceeding upen that hypothesis, er proceeding upon that
conclusion, it became then a problem of seeing if it could not

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be worked out on a divisional basis, that divisional basis

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largely having been fixed by nature. He have a great catch-
mont basin like the receptacle basin of a funnel; we have tho

funnel neck, the canyon,

and belew the territery that receives
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