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misfortune of Arizona, there has been enough water wasted through 

 the San Carlos reservoir site during the past three years to have 

 filled the proposed reservoir five times. The most feasible reservoir 

 site on the Gila River is at San Carlos, and the efforts of the entire 

 State should be concentrated on obtaining that reservoir at the 

 earliest possible moment. 



Groundwater supi)lies also are dependent u])on the rainfall, but 

 the effect of seasons of high and low rainfall is not so quickly felt as 

 in the case of surface supplies. 



THE PKoi'osi'i) stativ watKr code 



Special eft'ort has been made, whenever possible, during the 

 3'ear to present the merits and the urgency of the modern water 

 code, with its ideal system for adjudicating existing water rights 

 without litigation, for initiating new rights, and for State control 

 and distribution of water supplies. A paper outlining the proposed 

 code and relating the success of the modern system in the other 

 irrigated states of the West has been published as Extension Cir- 

 cular No. 11. Five meetings have been addressed on the subject, 

 and resolutions were adopted by the Second Arizona Irrigation 

 Conference and the National Irrigation Congress urging Arizona to 

 fall in line with the other states. 



G. E. P. Smith, 



Irrigation Engineer. 



A. L. EngEr, 



Assistant Engineer. 



