The Winslow mail., 1922-12-29
THE COLORADO
RIVER COMPACT

The states of Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
and Wyoming, having resolved to en-
ter into a compact under the Act of
the Congress of the United States of
America approved August 19. 1921
(42 Statutes at Large, Page I'D and
the Acts of the Legislatures of the
said States, have through their Gov
ernors appointed as their Commis-
sioners:
w. S. Norviel, for the State of Ari-
iona
w. F. Mcclure, for the State of Cal
ifornia
DELPHI E. Carpenter, for the State of
Colorado
J. c. Scrugham, ror the State of
Nevada
Stephen B. Davis, Jr., for the State
of New Mexico
r. E. Caldwell, for the State of
Utah
Frank E. Emerson, for the State of
wyoming
who, after negotiations participated
in by Herbert Hoover appointed by
The President as the representative
of the United States of America have
agreed upon the following articles:
ARTICLE l.
The major purposes of this compact
are to provide for the equitable divi-
sion and apportionment cf the use OF
the waters of the Colorado River
system; to establish the relative IN
po1tance of different beneficial uses
of water; to present and future con-
trOvesies; and to secure the expedl-
ton of agricultural and industrial de-
yelopment of the Colorado River Basin
the storage of it's waters and the pro-
lection of life and property from
floods. To these ends the Colorado
River Basin is divided into two
Basins. and an apportionment of the
use lf part of the water of the Colo
rado River System is made to each OF
them with the provision that fur
ther equitable appointments may be
made.
ARTICLE III.
AS used in this Compact
(a) The term Colorado River Sys-
TEN" means that portion OF the Colo
radc River and it's tributaries within
the United States of America.
(b) The term Colorado River
Basin" means all of the drainage
ARIA of the Colorado River System
and all other territory within the
Unlted 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 Colora-
do. New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
(d) The term States of the Lower
Division" means the States of Arl-
zona. California and Nevada.
(e) The term Lee Ferry means q
point in the main stream of the Colo
ado River one mile below the mouth
of the Paria River.
(f) The term Upper Basin" means
those parts of the States of Arizona
Colorado. New Mexico Utah ano
Wyoming within and from which
waters naturally drain into the Colo
rado River System above Lee Ferry
and also all parts of said States To-
Gated without the drainage area of the
Colorado River System which are nov
ed bv the waters diverted from the
System above Lee Ferry.
(g) The term Lower Basin" mean:
those parts of the States of Arizona
California, Nevada, New Mexico ant
Utah within and from which waters
naturally drain into the Colorado
River System below Lee Ferry, ant
also parts of said States located with
out the drainage area of the Colorado
River System which are now or shall
hereafter be beneficially served b!
waters diverted from the System be
low Lee Ferry.
(h) The term domestic use" shall
include the use of water for house
hold stock, municipal, mining, milling
industrial and other like purposes
but shall exclude the generation o
electrical power.
ARTICLE III.
al There is hereby apportionet
from the Colorado River System il
perpetuity to the Upper Basin and t.
the Lower Basin respectively the ex
elusive beneficial consumption use o
900, 900 acre feet of water per annun
which shall include all water neces
sary for the supply CT any right
which may now exist.
(b) In addition to the apportion
ment in paragraph (a), the Lowe
Basin is hereby given the right to in
crease it's beneficial consumptive us
OF such waters by one million acr
feet per annum.
(c) If, as a matter of internationa
Al of A
shall hereafter recognize in the Unite
States of Mexico and right to the us
of any waters of the Colorado Rive
System, such waters shall be suppl
ed first from the waters which ar
surplus over and above the aggre
gate of the quantities specified i