Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin, Parts 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) |
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... proposition like that through Congress . What we must be able to show if we expect to get the support of this committee and of Congress is that we have a proposition whereby the United States Government can do this thing which it ought ...
... proposition like that through Congress . What we must be able to show if we expect to get the support of this committee and of Congress is that we have a proposition whereby the United States Government can do this thing which it ought ...
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... proposition to go into this bill . That is our position . We admit that there should be such a provision . We are desirous that there should be . We would like to cooperate in the framing of such a provision . But we thought that we ...
... proposition to go into this bill . That is our position . We admit that there should be such a provision . We are desirous that there should be . We would like to cooperate in the framing of such a provision . But we thought that we ...
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... proposition is that the water might be stored at Glen Canyon , but allowed to flow down the river to Diamond Creek . For instance , where a dam would generate all the power necessary to supply the immediate and near future demands of ...
... proposition is that the water might be stored at Glen Canyon , but allowed to flow down the river to Diamond Creek . For instance , where a dam would generate all the power necessary to supply the immediate and near future demands of ...
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... proposition now is a dispute as to the water power . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . I would like to remind the gentleman that I speak for the people of one State . I have heard the statement being made that this matter is being delayed by private ...
... proposition now is a dispute as to the water power . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . I would like to remind the gentleman that I speak for the people of one State . I have heard the statement being made that this matter is being delayed by private ...
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... proposition before the California Legislature ? Mr. SWING . I do not know . These people are not fighting in the open . They do not , of course , come before this committee and argue that the American Congress should not appropriate ...
... proposition before the California Legislature ? Mr. SWING . I do not know . These people are not fighting in the open . They do not , of course , come before this committee and argue that the American Congress should not appropriate ...
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Page 38 - lower basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall herenfter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lee Ferry. i In The term "domestic use...
Page 38 - The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters and the protection of life and property from floods.
Page 48 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from...
Page 298 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 47 - Colorado River Basin" means all of the drainage area of the Colorado River System and all other territory within the United States of America to which the waters of the Colorado River System shall be beneficially applied. (c) The term "States of the Upper Division" means the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Page 50 - This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall have been approved by the Legislatures of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States.
Page 42 - Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River system above Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River system which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system above Lee Ferry. (g) The term "Lower Basin...
Page 44 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Commissioners have signed this compact in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States...
Page 47 - ... to promote interstate comity ; to remove causes of present and future controversies and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods. To these ends the Colorado River Basin is divided into two basins, and an apportionment of the use of part of the water of the Colorado River system is made to each of them with the provision that further equitable apportionments may...
Page 28 - States or under its authority, or not, and shall be deemed to be for the benefit of and be available to the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and the users of water therein or thereunder, by way of suit, defense, or otherwise, in any litigation respecting the waters of the Colorado River or its tributaries.