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<br />'. <br /> <br />I <br />I" <br />I <br /> <br />. " <br />, 1~~1, <br /> <br />.1 <br /> <br />upon desert lands and the might;;: power that can be produced there <br /> <br /> <br />is anplied to its transportation and industries, to the end that <br /> <br /> <br />this whole country both in the lower reaches of the Colorado and <br /> <br />in the upper reaches of the Rivor, might bave attained a some- <br />thing that your chairman has "Sryoken of, - a home for from three <br />to ten million of contented American people. :L'hiS has been my <br />dream for years end of others during a more recent period. and I <br /> <br />think the labor that I have haa. the pleasure of performing the <br /> <br />last few years as the chief executive of this state has been most <br /> <br />profitable, when it hus been towards that development for which <br />thiS Commissi on bas been crpated. <br /> <br />I think it is fitting also at this time to say just a word <br /> <br />or two towards the birth of this Commission. It goes back just <br /> <br /> <br />a few years, although it has been in the minds of men for a num- <br /> <br /> <br />ber of years and, as I look at these men before me here, it takes" <br /> <br /> <br />me back to 108 Angeles e.nd Salt Lake and Je"nV'er, Colorado. The <br /> <br /> <br />most of them were there then for the purpose of reaching a com- <br /> <br />mon point where in due time they ooul~ sit" at the peace table, <br /> <br /> <br />backed up by the statutory proV'ieions of their V'aribus states, <br /> <br />with the cooper8tion of the Federal GoV'ernment represented here <br /> <br /> <br />to-day at the head of this table 1n the person of Secretary <br /> <br /> <br />Hoover, to the end thEt the big problems necessary to be deter- <br /> <br /> <br />mined on this great river might be accomplished before and not <br /> <br />Efter court yrocedures. And so, through the efforts of you men <br />1'. <br />