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Show -25- feet of water, respectively, were posted on July 8, 1905, at the Arizona and California ends of the line of the proposed Laguna Dam and were duly recorded in the Yuma County, Arizona, and Imperial (then San Diego) County, California, recorders' offices. The Gila Project, on the lower Colorado River, reauthorized by the Act of July 30, 1947 (P. L. 272, 80th Congress), derives its water supply from that river. No attempt has been made to acquire appopriative rights under the laws of the State of Arizona for this project. In connection with the lower Colorado River situation, records of the Bureau do not indicate that it ever acquired any rights pursuant to the provisions of section 7 in connection with any of the foregoing projects except in connection with Laguna Dam. In that case, the United States acquired, for valuable considerations, the works of the Colorado Valley Pumping and Irrigating Company and of the Yuma Valley Union Land and Water Company, together with their rights and claims of right to divert from the Colorado River. Whether the latter was purely precautionary or otherwise is not known. On the other hand, a search of Bureau records fails to disclose any instance on that river in which the Bureau in connection with any of its projects failed or refused to recognize or make compensation for water rights validly established under State law. In this connection, the record shows that the water rights which were discussed in the California Land Development case, supra, were acquired by the Imperial Irrigation District in 1916. And the rights required for the Imperial Irrigation District were fully covered by the provisions of the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928, and the contracts made by the District with the United States thereunder. |
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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. |