WSP06710

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/20/1922
• Author: Colorado River Com.
• Title: Meeting of the Colorado River Compact Commission, Los Angeles
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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into concrete form before, in the manner I am putting it.

All the lands naturally tributary to and lying within the

basin of Colorado Rivbr suitable for irrigation, a~,benefi-

cial use of water, should be declared now to have a prior
ri~ht to the water, to be not affected by any development above

or below.

Thero is enouGh water in the basin to provide a

very large surplus above this amount of water necessary,

if this right be granted and given.

It is fair to every

state which has lands lying naturally tributary to that

basin.

The further devtlopment of the waters of the river

will be termed surplus waters.

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I would like to say at this point that the amount of

lands in the basin naturally tributary to the waters of the

river, and lyin~ naturally in the basin, and under easy

access of irrigation, would be easily detormined by a board
of engineers, workin~ under the direction of the Reclamation

Service, or even by the application of Mr Davis's report.

Those lands naturall:, tributary are eas ily ascertai nable,

and readily Gotten at, and there can be very little dispute

over it.

There would be some differences of opinion, but

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the differences would not be of any large amount.
Then the projects that have further use for the
Colorado River, and do not lie directly within the natural
basin, but farther away from the river-- and that would
include all schemeS of any shape that mi~ht be proposed--

Would have water rithts out of the surplus waters of the