AZ vs. CA:24 California Exhibits, Vol. XXIV; Miscellaneous

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ARIZ. EXH. NO. 46 Appendix 210 THE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT: REPORT OF DELPH E. CARPENTER, COMMISSIONER FOR COLORADO (Reprinted from 70 Cong. Rec 577-586 (December 14, 1928)) Denver, Colo., December 15, 1922. Hon. Oliver H. Shoup, Governor of Colorado, Capitol Building, Denver. Sir: I have the honor to report that a compact between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, providing for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River, was signed at Santa Fe, N. Mex., November 24, 1922, by the commissioners for said States, and was approved by the Hon. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, representative for the United States of America upon said commission. I signed the compact as commissioner for the State of Colorado, by your appointment, under authority of Chapter 246, Session Laws, 1921, and the commissioners for the other States acted under authority of similar legislation. The Hon. Herbert Hoover approved the compact, as the representative of the United States, under authority of the act of Congress approved August 19, 1921 (42 Stat. L., p. 171). The compact was executed in a single original, which has been deposited in the archive's of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy has been forwarded to the governor of each of the signatory States. It shall become binding and obligatory upon the signatories when approved by the legislature of each of said States and by the Congress of the United States. I transmit herewith a copy of the compact. It provides in substance as follows: All territory within the United States of America, to which the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries are or may be beneficially applied, is designated as "the Colorado River Basin." The drainage area of the river consists of two great natural subdivisions, viz, the upper region, located above the head of the great canyon, and the lower region below the great canyon (including the territory A77