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[ 3 ] REPPR T OF DELPH E. CARPENTER COMMISSIONER FOR COLORADO COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION IN RE COLORADO nIVIm COMPACT Denver, Oolorado., D'ecember 15, 1922. Hon, Oliver H, Shonp, Governor of Colorado, Capitol Bnilding, Denver. I I r I I Sir: I have the' honor to report that a compact between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyomil)g, providing for the equitable division and apportionment of the nse of the waters of the Colorado River, was signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, by the Commissioners for said States, and was approved by the Honor- able Herbel't Hoover', Secretary of Commerce, representative for the Unitcd States of America upon said Commission, I signed the compact as Commissioner for the State of Colo- rado, by your appointment, under authority of Chapter 246, Ses- sion Laws, 1921, and the Commissioners for the other States acted nnder anHlOrity of similar legislation, 'rhe Honorable Herbert Hoover approved the compact, as the representative of the United States, under anthority of the Act of Congress approved August 19,1921 (42 Statutes at Large, page 171). The compact was executed in a single original, which has been deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy h'as been forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States, It shall become bind- ing ani! obligatory upon the signatories when approved by the Legislature of each of said States ani! by the Congress of the United States, I transmit herewith a copy of the compact, It provides in snbstance as follows: All territory within the United States of America, to which the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries are or mav be benefIcially applied, is designated as "the Oolorado River Basin." The drainage area of the river consists of two great natural snb- divisions, viz.) the upper region, located above the head of the