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Show 510 INTERSTATE ADJUDICATIONS the mouth of the Royal Gorge for the years 1890, 1895 and 1900 is as follows: ARKANSAS RIVER-CANON CITY [Mean monthly discharge in second-feet] 1890 1895 1900 January.......................................................... 310 344 1345 February......................................................... 363 361 » 353 March........................................................... 320 471 1439 April............................................................ 477 868 736 May.......................................................______ 2,090 1,506 2,251 June............................................................. 2,611 1,900 3,492 July............................................................. 1,571 1,413 891 August...................................................________ 670 1,095 273 September............................_________......___________ 519 635 211 October................................................_________ 531 505 241 November......................._____........._________________ 522 499 260 December........................................................ 502 444 298 i Approximate. Doubtless the variance at different seasons of the year is more reg- ular and more pronounced than in those streams whose sources are only slightly elevated and the rise and fall of whose waters is mainly owing to rains. Contrasting, for instance, the Hudson with the Mis- souri, illustrates this. When the June flood comes down the Missouri River it is a mighty torrent. One can stand on the bluffs at Kansas City and see an enormous volume of water, extending in width from two to five miles to the bluffs on the other side of the river, flowing onward with tremendous velocity and force, and yet at other times the entire flow of the Missouri River passes between two piers of the railroad bridge across the river at that point. No such difference be- tween high and low water appears in the Hudson. In the days when navigation west of the Mississippi was largely by steamboats on the Missouri River, it was familiar experience for the flat-bottomed steam- boats, drawing but little water, to be aground on sandbars and de- tained for hours in efforts to cross them. Gen. Doniphan commanded an expedition which marched from Fort Leaven worth in 1846 up the Arkansas Valley and into the Territory of New Mexico. He did not enter the valley again until shortly before his death in 1887, and when asked what he recognized replied that there were one or two natural objects like Pawnee rock that appeared as they did when he marched up the valley; the river was the same but all else was changed, and the valley instead of being destitute of human occupation was filled with farm houses and farms, villages and cities--something that he had never expected would be seen in his day. Summing up our conclusions, we are of the opinion that the con- tention of Colorado of two streams cannot be sustained; that the ap- propriation of the waters of the Arkansas by Colorado, for purposes of irrigation, has diminished the flow of water into the State of Kansas; that the result of that appropriation has been the reclamation of large areas in Colorado, transforming thousands of acres into fer- tile fields and rendering possible their occupation and cultivation when otherwise they would have continued barren and unoccupied; that while the influence of such diminution has been of perceptible injury to portions of the Arkansas Valley in Kansas, particularly those portions closest to the Colorado line, yet to the great body of the |