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<br />MR. CARPENTER: Both, Partly on facts and partly arbitra- <br /> <br />ry. <br /> <br />MR. HOOVER: Perhaps another anSl.fer would be that it is <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />an attempt to compromise the situation, <br />!fJR. CARPEilTER: It rather appeals to the average mind as <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />suggestive of compromise. <br /> <br />I.JR. NORVIEL: The next qu,estion: In the proposed guaran- <br /> <br />tee of 6,264',000 acre feet per annum to be delivered at Lee 's <br /> <br />Ferry, is it to be understood that this amount of water is to <br /> <br />be delivered annually, or may it be delivered during any por- <br /> <br />tionof the ten-year period, as may be determined by the Upper <br /> <br />division? <br /> <br />MR. CARPErITER: ,It is not proposed to deliver just that <br /> <br />amount and no more or less annually. That is to be the annual <br /> <br />average over a ten-year period. As far as the will of the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. Upper Division is concerned, ~t was the thought at the begin- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ning and it is still in the mind of the author, that the <br /> <br />natural conditions would prevent any arbitrary position, but <br /> <br />that in the .event the dirrQnut~on should be beyond that, which <br /> <br />may be possible, that the Upper division should not encroach <br /> <br />upon the floH of the strear.l 'lio such an extent as to reduce it <br /> <br />below an average annual figure of the Lee's Ferry diminution. <br /> <br />The author of this compact makes no pretense that those figures <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />arc absolutely accurate and is not bound to the particular <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />figures mentioned, There had to be some set of figures taken <br /> <br />and they should be made to c6nform to the facts vThatever they <br /> <br />12th - S.F, <br />4 <br /> <br />74 <br /> <br />74 <br />