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Show -9- the aggregate "salary checks" drawn by them, for far more than 1,000 man-days of work, have to this moment totalled up to only $1,995, instead of the more than $15,000 they could have drawn under the law. It is of more than passing interest that the report to this Legislature's First Regular Session was unanimously approved by every member of this Commission, and the Code presented to the Second Regular Session was likewise approved by every member of the Commission, representing every county in the state. This was a code designed to give the land-owner of the state the full control of his own destiny, and at the same time make it possible for our now vanishing underground water supplies to be soundly conserved. After some period of study in the senate, the code was immediately subjected to crippling amendments. Certain city officials screamed that the code would destroy vast community investments intended for developing water supplies for domestic use-although, as nearly as anyone can ascertain, the developments so far consist of spending a few hundred dollars to obtain right of way leases on state lands in the middle of an agricultural development, to be followed by a proposal to convert them to well sites. This was a shock to the Commission, because testimony taken at a formal hearing, was to the contrary. The Commission's report of January 1, 1953, on Page 128, quotes Phil J. Martin, Jr., Tucson City Water Superintendent, as saying: "Our water table has dropped considerably in the last 10 years and is continuing to drop. We think there should |