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and the same is true of the Pecos. The Rio Grande the river, and between similar contestants of water 

 presents a series of conflicting interests from its rights in New Mexico and Texas along the middle 

 source in Colorado to its mouth between Texas and course. 



Proposed 

 Re- parti h'or* 

 nrenl of the 



ARID WEST 



by Drairv 



REPART1T1ONMENT OF ARID REGION, AS PROPOSED BY ORREN M. DONALDSON. 



the Republic of Mexico; the difficulty within the Coming to the Colorado river system, we find the 

 United States being between the rival irrigators in Green river and its tributaries divided among Wyo- 

 Colorado and New Mexico, along the upper course of ming, Colorado and Utah, and the Grand river and 



