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Show 281 stitutes part of the western boundary of the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation, were established by the 1928 General Land Office survey by reference to a survey map of the Reserve, dated 1870, and set forth in California Exhibit 3501.51 11. The 1870 map of the Hay & Wood Reserve, to which reference was made in surveying the western boundary of the Reserve in 1928, is one of the plats which accompanied the Executive Order of March 30, 1870.52 12. In withdrawing lands for the Fort Mohave Indian Reservation the United States intended to reserve rights to the use of so much water from the Colorado River as would be necessary to irrigate all of the practicably irrigable acreage therein and to satisfy related uses.53 13. There are 14,916 acres of irrigable Reservation land in the State of Arizona which, together with related uses, have a maximum annual diversion requirement of 96,416 acre-feet.54 14. There are 2,119 acres of irrigable land in the State of California and within the exterior boundaries of the Reservation as determined by the 1928 General Land Office survey, exclusive of the tract covered by the patents referred to in Finding 6. A portion of the 2,119 acres may be land which has accreted to patented land which was riparian to the Colorado River at the time of patent and such land shall not be included within the Reservation. The 2,119 acres, together with related uses, have a maximum annual diversion requirement of 13,698 acre-feet, said maximum diversion requirement to be reduced by the "Calif. Exs. 2616, pp. 3, 8-9; 3501. 52See Tr. 20343-20346 (Pratt); U. S. Ex. 1323. 5SSee U. S. Exs. 520, 1205, 1303-1305, 1308-1310. B4Calif. Ex. 3517; U. S. Ex. 1322, |
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Original Report: State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Imperial Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California |