AZ vs. CA:04 California Exhibits, Vol. IV; Nos. 151-192

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-9- livered. Instructions were given the engineers handling the water to carefully investigate all scientific methods and to recommend the one found most practical and accurate. This resulted in the introduction of the Price water meter. This method did not meet with favor by a number of the Imperial Water Companies, and your receiver urged them to have the most careful investigations and tests made by competent engineers, stating that if it could be shown that the Price water meter was not an accurate method of measuring water, he would abandon it. If it could not be shown as erroneous, he would adopt that means and abandon all weir measurements. The result was the substitution of the Price water meter for the weir. Comparative measurements were made for a period of twenty-eight months by both the old and the new method to show the comparative gain, with the result that the increase in earnings for said period, due to adopting the meter measurement, amounted to $53,666.26; on this basis, the aggregate increase in earnings to December 31st, 1915, due to meter measurement, amounted to over $100,000.00. During the period from December 13th, 1909, to December 31st, 1915, your receiver has delivered to the Mutual Water Companies over five million five hundred thousand (5,500,000) acre feet of water, a quantity sufficient to cover an area of 100 square miles to a depth of 86 feet. Your receiver begs to inform the court that he has never been able to collect any of the revenues for water delivered to lands in Mexico, while he has been obliged to pay all expenses of maintenance in Mexico relating to the movement of water in the main canals for lands in Mexico and in the United States.