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Show -17- to a flow of the river available for the lower basin States of 7,500,000 acre-feet, the water would be divided as follows: "California, 4,900,000; Arizona, 2,300,000; Nevada, 300,000. "With 8,500,000 acre-feet available, the division would be as follows: "California, 5,400,000; Arizona, 2,800,000; Nevada, 300,000. "With the above minimum flows of the main stream available for division in the lower basin, California would receive under her proposal vastly more water than is allocated to them under the Boulder Canyon project act. "At the Denver conference in 1927 California claimed her uses to be 2,159,000 acre-feet. Applying that figure to California's present proposal, the water would be divided as follows: "California, 4,555,000; Arizona, 2,645,000; Nevada, 300,000, for a flow of 7,500,000 acre-feet; and California, 5,055,000; Arizona, 3,145,000; Nevada, 300,000, for a flow of 8,500,000 acre-feet. "In Los Angeles last fall California claimed her uses to be 2,335,000 acre-feet. Applying that figure to the present water proposal, the division would be as follows: "California, 4,640,000; Arizona, 2,560,000; Nevada, 300,000; and California, 5,140,000; Arizona, 3,060,000; Nevada, 300,000 for flows of 7,500,000 and 8,500,000 acre-feet, respectively. "Coupled with this last water proposal is the provision 'all other points to be left to determination of the Secretary of the Interior under the act.' This, California states, is not related to water, but covers the revenue provisions |