WSP03626

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/30/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission - Meeting #7
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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We 'say we think we have suoh and such irrigable agres in,

" , 'these upper states but ,Ie are asked to cut down our ideas. 1-Ie

, " are to give up the right to irrigate ,certain acres up there. He

get nothing 'in exchange. I see nothing that The Upper Sta,tes are

going, to get out of this agreement except possibly in the way of

power development and possible use of power in the dams of the

lower River, so that i'G seems to me the attitude of the, lower

,States ought to be one of ,extreme 'liberality towards the upper

states,' since they are the ones that are asking and we are, not

asking for anything. There should be unlimited development in

the Upper States. As a representative of one of the Upper States
I would like to have that very IIlUch. I have tried to look at this
from the more or less practical viewpoint that We all want de_
velopment and I think we are 8l.l agreed that the first development
ought to be on the dams of the 10Her river. I am perfectly, will-
ing to agree to that, He do not want to do a thing that will in
any way interfere with that development. I can see hOH, if we
,arrive here at an agreement that there would be absolutely Ull-
limiteddeveloprr~nt in the Upper States, we would be'settlng our
names to a piece of paper that would be absolutely Horthless,
because in my judgment no development could actually ever be
Horked out on such a plan as that. ' 1^lhat I mean is this: Those
dams will cost 100 to 150 million dollars. Someone has got to
put up that ,money. I do not care whether it is Congress, the
States, the City, or some power company. The first thing that

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