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OOJ194 -13- known as the Grand Valley and Uncompahgre, and the Reclamation Service has this detailed data in very good shape at present, I am told. . In addition to that, the State en<;ineer fS office of Hyominp; has a large mass of detailed information prepared and is making a still fur- ther investigation, and in Colorado we have one export and two assist- ants, whose time is being devoted entirely to the Colorado River drain- age, taking in about half of our Stete. I might state in passing that Representati ve Taylor's oongressionn.1 district ino1udes the Colorado River drainage; in other words, they are coincident. ~. MR. YAT~S. His district oovers pretty nearly the whole western half of the State, does it not? MR. CARPENTER. Yes; the Continental Divide, which is the Colorado River drainage. MR. YATES. I want to ask another question, if it will not interrupt you. HR. Ct.RPE~:TSR. No; certainly not. MR. YATES. I want to know if anything of this kind has ever been done before, or whether this is an experiment - something brand new? MR. CIRPEllTER. It is new on rivers; the method has been very fre- quently applied to boundery matters a.ffecting interstate boundaries. MR. YATES. I mean cases 0 f the Government appointing representa- tives? MR. CARfENTER. In one case. You see in matters of boundaries between States, the Government has no material interest ordinarily, and. those matters are settled between the States themselves. MR. Y'TrS. Without any Government representative? , . MR. CARPEIJTER. Yes, sir; but in one oase, that of the boundary con- troversy between Indian Territory and the State of TeKas, after Texas became a State of the Union, the United States appointed a cammissioner on behalf of the United States of Amerioa, and the State of Texas appoint- ed a commissioner .on beha1 f of the State, for the purpose of trying to arrive at an understflnding respecting the disputed boundary on the Red River. The first commission having disagreed, it appointed a second camnission; and the second commissi on having disagreed, and diplomacy failing they finally resorted to the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Texas, I have noted that in a memorllndtun that I will put in the reo ord.