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<br />u002JO <br /> <br />-19- <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Now, are there any questions you would like to ask me respeoting <br />this matter? I appreciate very much the opportunity of disoussinG it <br />this morning, pri.",a ri ly, as I rea1i ze, for the purpose of the reo ord, <br />and would like to go into it as exhaustively as possible, because my <br />engageuents oompel me to leave in the morning, <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />If I may again urge it, the prinoipal thought is this. This is an <br />attempt, and I think the first in the history or the Uni+,ed States, upon <br />the part of seven States, and the only seven States interested, to settle <br />by diplomatic and friendly methods, in advance of pos~ible contention, <br />all future controversy which miGht otherwise arise upon the third largest <br />river in America. <br /> <br />MR. BOYsS. Probably the only one? <br /> <br />m. CARPhl!LR. Yes, sir. <br /> <br />MR. YATES. Have you any idea how long it would take in the matter <br />of hearings, etc.? <br /> <br />MR. ChRPj,;I~)';R. I will say, frankly, that the physical conditions <br />lend themselves to exp"ditious sett1eJllflnt, and it may be that the de- <br />liberations of the commission will be quite brief. <br /> <br />MR. YJ,T1;;S. You do not look for long-sustained contentions? <br /> <br />MR. CAR..ENTER. No; I do not, To make myself clear, this is the <br />opposite in physical condition from the ordinary western stream. Take <br />the Rio Grande, for exump1e. It rises in the mountains of New nexico <br />and then diminisms as it nows to.'ard the Gulf - toward E1 Faso - so <br />that for the moment, as it were, if all of the Colorado and New Nexico <br />territory were developed it would temporarily absorb the water in the <br />stream until the return water began to operate, but the way the land is <br />it would lick up the stream, consume the stream in the nrst application. <br /> <br />On the Co101'edo River the general shape or confi~,uration of the <br />oountry is such that the rivers cut narrow valleys, in the :nain. For <br />exa,.'ple, as I said before you came in, the State of Colorado furnishes <br />60 percent of the water of that stream. Congress'llan Taylor's distriot' <br />furnishes 60 percent of the water that reeohes the Gulf of California. <br />Yet, with all that drainar;e and with all the tunnels that we c auld <br />possibly put through to take '-'p little dribbles of water thn.r are avail- <br />able, 'Ne can not possibdy irrigcte 'ore than two or three million <br />acres, at tho outside, when the water table is 10,500,000 acre-feet, e_s <br />it i~ right n",,; so tho.t a great majority of the water of the Colorado <br />tl.iver must necessarily pass below the line unused. <br /> <br />l1!l. GOC''JYKOONTZ. In your statement you rafer red to the fn.ct that <br />