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<br />ARKANSAS RIVER COMPACT
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<br />and as a result or an agreement that has been .reached, everybody,
<br />as rar is I know, is satisfied and happy.
<br />We are coming here today arter the legislatures of each State have
<br />ratified the compact asking that the bill which has been introduced
<br />here in the Congress be reported ravorably, so that the Congress may
<br />have an opportunity to express its approval or this agreement. .
<br />. I am not ramiliar with the technical details or the arrangement
<br />but the members or the commission from each State are here, 8.
<br />General Kramer, who represented the Federal Government, is h
<br />and they will go into such details as the committee may want to hb~_
<br />on these matters.
<br />I am simply here to say that I am very happy, indeed, to have the
<br />opportunity to be present on this occasion when this controversy has
<br />been settled, arter It has gone on ror so many years, .
<br />Unless there are some questions, I think that will conclude my state-
<br />ment,
<br />Mr. MURDOCK, Mr. Welch desires to ask you a question or two.
<br />Mr. HoPE. Yes, Mr. Welch, . .
<br />Mr. WELCH. Congressman Hope, are there any irrigation districts
<br />in your State or Kansas!
<br />Mr. HOPE. We do not have what I presume you rerer t,o as "irriga-
<br />tion districts." There are five irrigation ditches, which are local co-
<br />operative organizations, which will receive some benefit rrom this
<br />agreement, in that they will get water now which they were not able
<br />to get berore. But, there are no local organizations, irrigation dis-
<br />tricts, as I understand exist in many other States. But there is no
<br />question among the ditches, or the people who are interested in getting
<br />water rrom the ditches, OVer this matter, so rar as I know.
<br />Mr, WE!CCH, Is irrigation necessary in any part or the State or
<br />Kansas!
<br />Mr, HOPE. Yes' in the western 'part or the State irrigation is very
<br />advantageous, The county in whICh I live has an annual rainrall or
<br />18 inches, and by the USe or irrigation we can produce many crops
<br />that could not be ,Produced with that amount or rainrall, And we
<br />can increase the ;YIeld or other crops, so that there has been a great
<br />expansion of irrIgation in western Kansas in recent years, not. so
<br />much rrom the Arkansas River, because even under this agreement
<br />the amount or water available would not extend to them; but the
<br />greater development has been along the line or pumping, and that
<br />has been very advantageous, .
<br />Mr. WELCH. Do rarmers have to depend upon irrigation in the
<br />western section or the State ror any purposes!
<br />Mr. HOPE, They have to depend upon irrigation ror the produc-
<br />tion or certain crops. We cannot grow rruits and vegetables without
<br />irrigation. We cannot grow corn or some or the other grains. We do
<br />grow wheat, and we grow barley and other small grains, but very
<br />largely by summer rallowing practices, whereby we conserve a moisture
<br />or one season or the year to the other. We do have some continuous
<br />cultivation in the production or wheat, and or course some other land
<br />is used ror the production or livestock, but we can expand the quantity
<br />or production tremendously through the use or irrigation. even in
<br />those crops that we can now grow to some extent without irrigation.
<br />Mr. MmuiocK. Thank you kindly, Congressman Hope, I want to
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