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<br />24 <br /> <br /> <br />During the past two years, especially, the matter of interstate <br /> <br /> <br />questions, referriQg to Hater rights, has come to Wyoming Hith great <br /> <br /> <br />force and I have devoted a considerable portion of my time the last <br /> <br /> <br />tHo years to a study of the questions that are involved. He have <br /> <br /> <br />had some experience, heretofore, over a considerable period of years <br /> <br /> <br />on interstate streams, He have our neighbor to the south, Colorado, <br /> <br /> <br />with whom WG have just finished another round in the Supreme Court <br /> <br /> <br />of the United States: for the third time the old Colorado-Vlyoming <br /> <br /> <br />case ,IUS argued before the Supreme Court. ,lhen decision will come, <br /> <br /> <br />we knoH not yet.. VIe have had a situation upon the North Platte <br /> <br /> <br />River that has been a thorn in the flesh of Hyoming for a large <br /> <br /> <br />number of years. I,am very glad to say that that situation is well <br /> <br /> <br />Horked out at this time; but the work has come after instead of <br />before. <br /> <br /> <br />The plaptpat is nOH proposed for the solution of the Colorado <br /> <br /> <br />River proposition appears to me a very happy and fortunate one in <br /> <br /> <br />appearance at leas;\< and I hope it may "ork out so in order that we <br /> <br /> <br />may solvo the ,large part of these vexing questions before injustice <br /> <br /> <br />is done or development is held up, <br /> <br /> <br />It is going to mean cooperation. It is going to moan coopera- <br /> <br /> <br />tion both Hays, that is, the lower river Hith the upper river and the <br /> <br /> <br />upper ,-lith the lo,l8r. <br /> <br /> <br />I know Wyoming and its Green River rather well and in knowing <br /> <br /> <br />that I knOH the problems, the possibilities and the ambitions of the <br /> <br /> <br />upper states more or less. In order to become aequainted with the <br /> <br /> <br />situation in the Lower River so that I may be in a position to judge <br /> <br /> <br />more fairly of the questions that Hill arise and the matters He will <br /> <br /> <br />have discussed, I made it a point to go dOHn upon the L01,er River <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.. <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />. <br />