The Coconino sun., 1922-12-01
LOWER COLORADO RIVER
 BASIN STATE RIGHTS ARE
 FINALLY ACCEPTABLE
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Governor-elect Hunt expressed the opinion that Arizona could not enter into a compace with the other basin states for at least two years on ac- count of lack of engineering data on the river.
 Governor Campbell declared that he believed that the compact was not sary in order that the state may par ticipate in government projects and enjoy the benefits of private enter prise. The governor declared that he would not call special session of the state legislature to ratify the compact and asserted that this question was never discussed at the meeting at San ta Fe.
 He said he was of the opinion that the Arizona state legislature would ratify the compact when its members became thoroughly conversant with it's provisions. It will be put up to the legislatures in the seven states, he added, at the next sessions which oc- cur in nearly all of the seven states next January.
 All of the other states in he basin were represented by their governor elects in person or a personal repre- sentative of the governor-elect, with the exception of Arizona, Governor Campbell said, so that the compact is fully understood by the incoming gov enors of all the states except Ari- Zona.
 When asked concerning the rumor that he was to receive a federal ap- pointment as Colorado river commits sioner, Governor Campbell answered that the compact provides that techni- cal men shall compose the commission which includes the water commission CTS of the seven states and reclama- tion surveys. The compact, he said, was never meant to create jobs for anyone.
 Governor Campbell made the fol- lowing statement of the major provis- ions of the compact as they had been agreed upon when he left Santa Fe on Tuesday night, but declared that he could not make public the entire doc ument. His statement is as follows:
 The major purposes of the compact are to provide for the equitable diviS- ion and apportionment of the uses of the waters of the Colorado river ba- sin and to establish the relative i'm pOrtanCe of the seven states to the uses of the water and to bring about peace among the states by remov- ing the probable causes of present and future controversies and by SC doing bring about the expeditions de- velopment of agricultural and indus trial development of the potential res ervoirs of the basin by storing of its present destructive waters and pro, lection of property from floods in the lower river basin.
 The lower river basin, by the com pact, is to be divided into two divis. ions. The states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming comprise the upper division and the states of Arizona, California and Nevada the lower division, with the waters of the river to be apportioned for the use of each basin. The point of div ision is at Lees Ferry in Arizona and the terms "apportionment" and "ap- propriation" are not in any way syn onomus, the former meaning the div ion of water for consumptive and ben. eficial uses and the latter the bene. ficial uses which relate to date of any prior notice or constructive works.
 Preference in use shall always be given to agricultural, industrial and power, navigation being subservient to those uses mentioned. It is fully understood that none of the provisions in compact shall interfere with any