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Show 17 Growth of Personal Income84 Per Cant State 1945 1956 Growth (Jain Arizona California Nevada $ 654,000,000 15,194,000,000 233,000,000 $ 1,468,000,000 27,026,000,000 507,000,000 $ 814,000,000 11,832,000,000 274,000,000 124.5% 77.8% 117.6% Growth of Bank Deposits65 State 1946 1955 Growth PerOant Gain Arizona $ 372,721,000 $ ¦762,799,000 $ 390,078,000 104.7% California 13,255,770,000 19,532,281,000 6,276,511,000 47.3% Nevada 156,368,000 290,622,000 134,254,000 85.9% It is universally recognized that this rapid development is pressing hard against the ceilings imposed by the availability of water from the Colorado River System. This circumstance united with another to accentuate the intensity of the competition for this life-giving water. Since 1930 the Colorado River has been in drought. Whether this drought cycle has come to an end has been a subject of some debate. It is noteworthy that since 1922 estimates of the Colorado River's capacity have steadily been revised downward.86 "Source: Ariz. Ex. 134; Calif. Ex. 528. "Source: Ariz. Ex. 134; Calif. Ex. 528. ^Compare Herbert Hoover's estimate that it would take 75 years before the Compact apportionment of 16,000,000 acre-feet would be fully appropriated (Special Master's Ex. No. 4, The Hoover Dam Documents, appendix 205, p. A32) with the following: (1) the Compact negotiators assumed a System supply of approximately 21 million acre-feet (Id., at p. A36); (2) in Arizona v. California, 283 U. S. 423 (1931), the Arizona complaint indicated a total River supply of 18 million acre-feet; (3) in Arizona v. California, 298 U. S. 558 (1936), Arizona's complaint alleged an average annual-undepleted flow at Imperial Dam of 16,840,000 acre-feet and further alleged that at that time 9,720,000 acre-feet were still unappropriated; and (4) in the present litigation, both Arizona and California have agreed that the average annual undepleted or virgin flow of the Colorado River at Lee Ferry is approximately 15,200,000 acre-feet. (Ariz. Ex. 366; Calif. Proposed Finding 5C:1O2) |