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Show -21- 5th. For California to pay $1.00 per horsepower on such power as might be developed at a government built dam at Boulder Canyon in lieu of taxation; and that the revenue be divided 50-50 between Nevada and Arizona. Your committee took the California proposal under advisement for some two weeks, during which time we consulted with engineers and attorneys. Among the engineers consulted were Cragin, Hayden, Trott, Le-febvre, Ricketts and Holmquist, and among the attorneys who placed their services at the disposal of the committee were John L. Gust, Samuel White, Alexander C. Baker and Louis B. Whitney. We found upon investigation that California had filed upon and claimed title, not only to more water of the Colorado than is available for use without regulation and storage, but to more than is allotted to the three lower basin states under the Santa Fe Compact, and that a legal question arises as to what rights, if any, California may have acquired under the law of prior appropriation as a result of activities in progressively putting water to beneficial use. We also ascertained that filings for water have been made by all of the states in the basin, for all of the projects that ever may be found feasible; that many of these filings antedate those made by Arizona, and that most of these other states have shown greater diligence than that shown by Arizona in perfecting their filings. The total filings for water in the different states by many times exceed the available supply. The committee submitted a proposal to California and Nevada on December 14, 1925. It was based upon evidence furnished by the reports of Mr. E. C. LaRue of |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |