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Show 120 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Colorado Attorney Howell submitted a lengthy brief against HJR. 225,135 then gave way to Breitenstein,136 who displayed several maps of the Colorado River Basin and reiterated the Arizona contention that not until a project had been authorized was there a justiciable con- troversy. "We appreciate the fact," Breitenstein said, "that in Southern California they have had a great growth, and that they anticipate the need of additional water to take care of an even greater growth in that area. . We feel that so far as national welfare is concerned, it is just as important to look after the hinterlands and the provinces as it is to look after the big cities on the sea coast." Rep. William A. Dawson of Utah pictured the Upper Basin states in the role of an innocent bystander, and declared Utah had no quarrel with either Arizona or California and should not be drawn into the proposed legislation.137 Attorney Carson returned, bringing news of the death of Governor Osborn of Arizona.138 He submitted, for the record, testimony he had given before other hearings on Colorado River matters. It required 140 pages of small type. He also placed in the record the testimony of Stone, Tipton, Baker and Debler, given in the hear- ings on S. 1175. For the purpose of showing the committee that Ari- zona had rights to plenty of water for the Central Arizona Project, and that building it could not harm California, Carson offered a letter of recent date written by Governor Osborn to Reclamation Commissioner Straus. It purported to show that Arizona was using its apportioned share of the river water as follows: 139 |