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--..e m_. ..J .....j .- 1Il,.,- '0' ..... " '. -49- ~>.:~?f!~ holding Is supported by the view that the promotion of the public good Is a primary purpose of the monument reservation and that It Includes public enjoyment of both stated and unstated monument ob- jectives. Moreover, the holding Is supported by the view that the 1916 National Park Service Organic Act, discussed below, merely con- firmed the purposes for which national monuments have always been reserved. F I na I I y, the 1911 pr lor I ty date for reserved water rights In conserving objects not expressly covered until the 1916 Act Is supported by a "relation-back" theory In Arizona v. California, supra (Lake Mead National Recreation Area given priority dates of 1929 and 1930 when executive orders withdrew lands "pending determina- tion as to the advlsabl I Ity of Including such lands In a national monument," though no national monument was created and Lake Mead National Recreation Area purposes were not expressly stated untl I 1964), and United States v. Walker River Irrlaatlon District, 104 F.2d 334 (9th Clr. 1939) (where an Indian reservation was given an 1859 priority date when the Indian Commissioner suggested a reserva- tion, though the tract was not formally reserved until 1874). This "re I at 1 on-back" theoty I s not I ncons I stent with the New Max Ico Court's view of the effect of the 1960 Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act on national forests, since that statute Indicated that the additional purposes were supplemental and subsidiary to the 1897 Organic Act purposes, while the 1916 Act merely confirmed the "fundamental purpose" for which national monuments have always been reserved. Thus, I conclude that pre-1916 natJonal monuments receive the re- served water rights dlsc~ssed above In the nc-~10nal park context, carrying a priority date of the date of the establishing presiden- tial proclamation, ';"~:.~~~ 2. Effect of the 1916 National Park Service Orqanlc Act With the passage of the 1916 National Park Service Organic Act, the pur- poses of national monuments were-explicitly stated for the first time: the fundamental purpose of said. . monuments. Is to conserve the scenery and-the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same In such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generatlons.921 921 16 U.S.C. ~ I (1970). - --l . : .-:.'~