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<br />r.c <br />.- <br />00 <br />-' <br /> <br />,- <br />~. <br /> <br /> <br />Surn'y party ill 1922 illw'srigating Black Canyo/l <br />Sill' where !foOl'eI' Dam sra!lds (0(/(1)' <br /> <br />The ideal solution, it appeared, would <br />be for all the Basin States to agree in ad- <br />vance upon their respective rights. Cer- <br />tainly. without agreement. any large-scale <br />development on the Colorado would be <br />impossible. <br />In 1920. representatives of the Gover- <br />nors of the Basin States met and endorsed <br />a proposal for an interstate compact. <br />Wyoming appointed a commissioner in <br />1921, and all the States had appointed <br />commissioners by mid-year. On August <br />19, 1921. President Warren G. Harding <br />appointed Herbert Hoover, then Secretary <br />of Commerce, as the Commission's <br />Federal representative. On January 26, <br />1922, the Commission held its first meet- <br />ing, and elected Hoover its presiding <br />officer. <br /> <br />The Commission members first tried to <br />devise a compact that would divide the <br />water among the individual States but <br />they could not agree on this proposition. <br />Then Hoovcr made a proposal that <br />cleared the way for agreement. Known as <br />the Hoover Compromise, the proposal <br />was that the water be apportioned to two <br />groups, the Upper and tile Lower Basin <br />States, and the division of water between <br />the individual States of each basin would <br />be left for filture agreement. <br />The resulting agreement, the Colorado <br />River Compact, was signed by the Com- <br />mission members on November 24, 1922, <br />in Santa Fe, New Mexico. For this <br />reason, it is often referred to as the Santa <br />Fe Compact. The compact was approved <br />over a period of years by the Basin State <br />legislatures and the United States. <br /> <br />[;: <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />d" <br /> <br />u "I <br /> <br />.:. <br /> <br />III <br /> <br />~ <br />lJI <br /> <br />i}' MJ \1lIii <br /> <br />The Colorado River Compact divided <br />the Colorado River Basin into the Upper <br />and Lower Basins. The division is at Lees <br />Ferry, which is on the mainstem of the <br />Colorado River in northern Arizona, ap- <br />proximately 30 river miles south of the <br />Utah-Arizona boundary. <br />The teml "Upper Basin" means those <br />parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, <br />New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming from <br />which waters naturally drain into the Col- <br />orado River system above Lees Ferry, <br />and all parts of these States that are not <br />part of the river's drainage system, but <br />which may benefit from waters diverted <br />from the system above Lees Ferry. <br /> <br />15 <br />