WSP07124

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/26/1922
• Author: Co. R Compact Comm.
• Title: Minutes of Colorado Compact Commission on Compact Negotiations - Introduction to Minutes
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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including all corrections and insertions. Each page has been carefully read

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and compared with the original photostatic copy. The page numbers are those

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shown on the photostats, and it will be noted that there are three series of

page numbers as follows:

Pages 1 to 152, inclusive (see first and second pages
of Index)
Pages 1 to 209, inclusive (see second, third and fourth
pages of Index)
Pages 1 to 172, inclusive (see fourth and fifth pages
of Index)

It will be observed that the note from the Bureau of ReclBJllation,

above quoted, states that "correspondence and search conducted in 1940 and

1941 failed to result in the location of the original minutes of the Com-

mission......"

A letter, dated May 3, 1948, from the National Archives, Washington

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D. C., states:

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"This is in reply to your letter of April 12 requesting
information as to the location of the original minutes of the
Colo'rado River Compact Commission.

"We have searched the J:'ecords of the Reclamation Bureau,
the National Resources Planning Board, and the Department of
Conunerce, \{hich are in the National Archives, and have been
unable to find these minutes. The Weather Bureau, the Geologi-
cal Survey, and the Department of Commerce have had searches
made among records retained by them and have likewise been un-
able to find the minutes ;HH, "

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In recent years inquiry and search made by various persons for the

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original or a copy of all of the minutes of the Colorado River Compact Com-

mission have failed to bear results. Such search has extended to available

files of some of the compact commissioners.