Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-04-01

missioners from the lower states,
Rogers declared: You can build
your reservoirs as we had to build
ours In Colorado. We had to take
the storm waters for our reservoirs,
You'll have to take them just the
same as we did. Let the Imperial
valley go through what We had to
go through. I fail to see why Colo
RADIO should Join a compact which
surrenders one drop of water"
Chairman Hoover and Rogers
entered into a long discussion of
the law of irrigation.
Commissioner Norveil OF Arizona
asked:
III Colorado and Kansas had
entered such a compact as we pro-
pose to write between the states,
such a suit as that between the two
states would have been disposed
of, wouldn't it,"
Rogers did not agree fully. de-
claring even after the United states
supreme court had DECIDED the
case, other cases had sprung up.
Priority Right.
James A. Marsh. city attorney OF
Denver. declared the amount OF
water desired by Denver for trans
mountain diversion was so small 1t
could not injure the western slope
of the river basin. chairman
Hoover asked Marsh II he tnought
priority right to water coulu pe
established by beneficial use.
II believe it can be-" Marsh re-
Il r.ts .fF--
piled. He agreed with the char-
man that it was desirable to have
the colorado river dispute settled
by agreement.
"suppose this commission came
to an agreement and all the water
OF the upper and lower Colorado
river should be applied to benefl--
cjal use and suppose the United
States and Mexico should make q
treaty whereby a certain amount
of water should be allocated to
Mexico for irrigation, where would
tha water he taken from? 2" Mr.
Hoover asked.
Mr.. Marsh said he doubted IL the
United States would make such q
treaty with q foreign power II a
pact between the states were WRIT
ten, but declared IL such a treaty
were made and the waters of the
river We're exhausted each state,
in his opinion, would have to be
deprived of an equitable proper
ton of the waters"
A letter from Fred A. Sabfn OF
La Junta, an official of the Ar
kansas River Ditch association.
was placed in the record request
ing the associations right to use
the headwaters of the river for adj
ditional supply for the Arkansas
river be not foreclosed.
Papers Read Into Record.
Numerous papers on technical
matters in connection with the riv-
err and showing crop production in
Colorado were read into the rec
ord.
A. J. McCune, state engineer of
Colorado, told the commission he
favored the building of a large dam
to protect the Imperial valley.
"All we want" he declared. "is
to be protected in our rights. We
don't want a repetition of the con-
ditions that followed the building
of the Elephant Butte dam on the
south, which stopped development
of the Rio Grande. and the Path
finder dam on the north, which
stopped development on the North
Platte"
John r. Fields Of Denver, former
state engineer, who compared Col
orado's situation to that of
France" "menaced on all sides"
declared under the constitution
"our water is reserved to the use
of the people of the state" and
announced he desired to serve pub
lie notice that Colorado :. never
would agree to any restrictions.
Short talks in behalf OF Wyo-
ming's claims were made Just be-
fore the hearing ended, by c. e.
Beridge. engineer. representing the
Green River tWyoming) Commun-
ity club, and M. II. Christensen,
contractor, of wyoming and Utah.