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Show -3- eight or ten years previous, were worn out and in a state of decay. As a result of these conditions, it was found upon examining the books of the California Development Company, that the total earnings from the sale of water for the year ending December 31st, 1909 (which period included the first nineteen days of the receivership), amounted to only $236,000.00 (which sum was not collected by your receiver), a sum considerably less than the cost of operating the system during said year. There were no funds available. The appointment of your receiver occurring, as heretofore stated, in December, made the first available money that derived from sales of water for the last nineteen days of the year 1909. The great urgency that something be done, not only to make the canals adequate, but to protect against a repetition of the great floods of 1905 and 1906, made it necessary for your receiver to secure an order of the court for the issuance of receiver's certificates. This order was granted and during the interval between December 22nd, 1909, and April 6th, 1910, receiver's certificates totaling $315,000.00 were sold at par to the Southern Pacific Company, thus providing means for the operation of the system, and the urgent work of building a protective levee, as well as the acquirement of certain necessary equipment. In the year 1910 the fluctuating elevation of the floor of the Colorado River between high and low water and the constantly accumulating sediment, or silt, in the Intake Canal, showed an urgent need for artificial means of raising the surface of the Colorado River during the low water period. This was accomplished by your receiver visiting Washington and securing permission from the War Department to build a temporary rock weir across |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde 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, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |