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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that ?-.ndividull-l wants to know is

When are we going to get

,:j. t pack? That ,depends ultimately on the flow of the water in that

dollars.

Mr. ,McClure, says: "I want you to put up one hundred million
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There is plenty of water! in that stream." Mr. Carpenter
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here2ays ,that. it is impossible for the upper States to use the

water. This man who is going to P1;lt up the money wants something

more than that. He does not \,ant ~o go througl1 an interminable

amount of engineering investigatiors, He wants a record of it.

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He says,' those people up there are i making these claims, anyway and

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I smafraidof them. .The man thatiis going to put up this money
wants to know it with some definit~ness. If we can?ot agree on a
limitation, of acreage on these Upper States we might just as well
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.quit right ,now. If the lower Stat~s \Vere willing to enter into
s)lch a compact;16 would have an inhrument that is perfectly

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'worthless as .far as \,e are Qoncern$d. The limitations have to be
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extremely liberal.

We want to aSc$rtain whether there can be any
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.agreement between these States as ~o that limitation. We should
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not digress in any way until:we fi*d out what the situation is.
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If we can't agree on the lim:j.tatio*, then I thi~we fail!

)<lR. HOOVER: . Mr. Carpent,er has been preparing his proposition

'of'a ba.s'is for a compact.

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Will yo~ let us have yourpropo~al?
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,MR. CARPENTER: Hr. Chairman, I I offer the followil1g suggestion:

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