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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Next, I came in here, not prepared to present the matter with. a

full statement, giving it as my own vie'lpoint from my own state.

I feel frankly..that this is a matter requiring very prudent an~
thoughtful ,treatlllent.Hasty treatment would be unvIarranted. vie

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are here with a pretty sac.rec1 trust and it should not be treated.

lightly. . I really believe that in the months and weekstoaome..

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many small matters of difference can be argue~ out. I wO)lI~say
frankly that I would be open to severo censure if I should go .
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home saying that I signed anything without the ,fullest and most

frank understanding with the officials and the government of my

State.

MR. HOOVER: I am only groping around here fora useful subject

for further consideration at the next meeting. In the meantime I

assume that Nevada, Oalifornia,Wyoming, and New Mexico, have a

sufficiency of data on which they are prepared to aot but that

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Utah, Ooloradoand Arizona have not sufficient data. That will

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require certain periods of. time. I do not assume that we could

do all those things in even sixty days. How Il1Uch time do you

think will be. required, Mr. Oaldwell, on your part?
MR. OALDHE1L: How long didit take Colorado?

}iR. CARPENTER: It took us the better part of two seasons to

gather that ,data in the thoroughness with which it is gathered.
MR. HOOVER: Thehorne consideration of these proposals will
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probably require a month, .but I do no~ knO\'1 how many years the

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collecti9n of further engineering data will take.
MR. DAVIS: I wan~ to Hithdraw in the meantime from the record
tha~New Mexico would accept any acreage less than the full amount
that is claimed. It does not seem to me that what vTe have split

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