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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />their posterity, judr,ed by :oresc'nt stuJJu.8rds c.f justice. ~'hey aTe <br /> <br />just as loyal to and thoughtful of their future generations as are <br />the upper states. <br />"Vihen these contingencies we ere discussing arise, i.f they <br />ever do, conditions may be greatly changed. Great strides will <br />have taken place in chemistry Bnd other sciences. Possibly in <br />that da;y the people of the upper states will prefer to use the <br />water of the baain for power rather than for irrigation. Why <br />not leave this question that we are gothering about now, and <br />only concerns the future, to the future to solve, which will better <br />understand the ~onditions then ~revailing. Can not their good <br />.iudgment be de0endeli ur,on to wDrk out a jllst solution of tre pro- <br />blem, if there is a problem? "Why cross the brid.:,e before we come <br />to it? II Vvha t now se i!mS a "mountain" to us, may be only a "mole <br />hill" to them. <br />"1hey Say "possession is nine points of the law." All tha <br />water in question is in the possession of the upper states be- <br />fore it reaches Arizona and California. If Arizona and California <br />are not worrying, why should the upper states worry. <br />"In other words, the possibility of a shortage of Wii ter for <br />irrigation is remote. If it ever hcppens, let ~he prior users of <br />the basin as a whole haVe! preference. .\'Ihen the last feasible dam <br />in the canyon is constructed and there is a real shortaece of water <br />for :oower, let those then living determine the extent of the pre- <br />ference that the use for power in the canyon shall have over the <br /> <br />P. <br />