AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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41 sions of Section 4 (a) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act for the apportionment of the water allotted to the Lower Basin by the Colorado River Compact were not acceptable to any one of said states. Arizona, foreseeing the intent and purpose of California to appropriate to her own use, by the aid of subsidies from the United States Treasury, all the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries, exclusive of the Gila, apportioned to the Lower Basin, to the exclusion of Arizona and Nevada, and all of the waters of said river unapportioned by said compact, to the exclusion of Arizona and California's co-defendants, and to claim against them prior rights thereto under the doctrine of appropriation, declined to ratify the Colorado River Compact unless and until an agreement had been entered into among Arizona, California and Nevada under the terms of which there would be apportioned to Arizona an equitable share of the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries apportioned to the Lower Basin by said compact. From time to time subsequent to the passage and approval of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, duly appointed, constituted and authorized representatives of the States of Arizona, California and Nevada met for the purpose of negotiating such an agreement, but the representatives of the State of California, at each of said meetings, declined to agree to proposals submitted by the representatives of Arizona and further declined to offer any basis upon which they would be willing to negotiate, until January, 1935, when the representatives of Cali-