Bisbee daily review., 1922-11-25
COMPACT TO PROVIDE EQUITABLE DIVISION OF WATER IS FINISHED.
Work of River Commission Comes End With Signing of Agreement by Seven States Concerned; Special Gold
 Provided by New Mexico for Occasion
Will Secure Expeditions Agricultural and Industrial Develop ment of Colorado River Basin Storage of Waters
 Protection of Life and Property From Floods

those parts of the states of Arizona. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyo- ming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado river system above Lees Ferry and also parts of said states located without the drainage area ot the Colorado river system which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system above Lees Ferry.
 "(g) The term 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 Lees Ferry and also all parts of said states located without the drainage area of the Col orado river system which are now and shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the system below Lees Ferry.
 '(h) The term domestic use shall include the use of the water for house. hold. stock, municipal. mining milling. industrial and other like purposes, but shall exclude the generation of electri- cal power.
 Article 3. Gal There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado river system in perpetuity to the upper basin and to the lower basin respec-s lively the exclusive beneficial con sumptive use of 7,50O 900 acre feet of water per annum. which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
 "(b) In addition to the apportion- ment in paragraph A. the lower basin is hereby given the right to increase its beneficial consumptive use of such waters by 1.0O0.000 acre feet per annum.
 '(c) If. as 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 the waters which are surplus over and above the aggre- gate of the quantities specified in paragraphs A and B, and i, such sur plus shall prove insufficient for this purpose. then the burden of such de- ficiency shall be equally borne by the upper basin and the lower basin. and wherever necessary the states of the upper division shall deliver at Lees Ferry water to supply one-half of the deficiency so recognized in addition to that provided in paragraph ID. "(d The states of the upper divi- sion will not cause the flow of the river at Lees Ferry to be depleted below an aggregate of 75.000.OOO acre feet for any period of 10 consecutive : years reckoned in continuing progress ! sve series. beginning with the first | day of October next succeeding the ratification of this compact. "(e) The states of the upper diyi- ] sion shall not withhold water and the states of the lower division shall not 1 require the delivery of water which
 cannot reasonably he applied to do- nestle and agricultural uses. 70 Furtherequitable apportiOnment | of the beneficial uses of the waters of ! the Colorado river system unappOr-
 toned by paragraphs A. B. and c. may [ be made in the matter provided in (Continued on Page SixO