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<br />109 <br /> <br />With more than 60% of the water of this river rising within <br /> <br />our territory, (Colorado), we are put into this position: Can <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />we, in'fact, use all this llater upon our own territory? The ans- <br /> <br />Her is negative. The maj or part will ahlays floll out to other <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />States. It is unnecessary to consider the limits to which that <br />or <br />State might go for/her to insist that every drop of her terri- <br /> <br />torial water shall be used exclusively within her domain to the <br /> <br />possible detriment of other States. <br /> <br />There is a natural apportionment of benefits. <br /> <br />" <br />,The-Upper States or the States of origin have the inherent <br /> <br />right to the use of that portion of the water rising and flowing <br /> <br />"lithin their territory, necessary for their self-preservation and <br /> <br />development, at least to the extent that they shall not unreason- <br /> <br />ably injure their neighbors below, vIhen I speak of the states of <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />origin, I speal< primarily of those states in vlhich the water has <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />its rise. There is an overlapping in a considerable part, between <br /> <br />these states. That is, the characteristics of origin, and bene- <br /> <br />ficiaries overlap to some degree. Colorado might be taken as the <br /> <br />nearest example of a State of origin, California that of an eX- <br /> <br />tremely beneficiary state. Intermediately would be those States <br /> <br />which both contribute and receive. <br /> <br />Hith states of origin, no matter vlhat the cause, if water is <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />compelled to flow dOlJn from their mountains and out upon other <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />territory, it is forever lost to them. There can be no recovery. <br /> <br />vI. <br />