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Show __y__ Mr. Stafford. Construction and maintenance camps. A Member. Good. Mr. Stafford. Dumping ground, flowage, diverting or storage dam. Mr. Haines. Good. Mr. Stafford. And the senior candidate for Senator says "good." Of course he is in favor of grabbing everything. Mr. Swing. I did not open my mouth. Mr. Stafford. Pumping plants, power plants, canals, ditches, pipes, and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels and conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, power, and other useful purposes poles, towers, and lines for the conveyance and distribution of electrical energy, poles and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, or communication, for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character, and any other necessary purposes of said district, together with the right to take for its own use, free of cost, from any public lands within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like character necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and maintenance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric plants, and transmission, telephone and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and communication, or any other necessary purposes of said district. Mr. Speaker, it is unlimited, and in the time that the gentleman from California [Mr. Swing] had, he would give you the impression that this bill is going to convey to this metropolitan water district only the right to have a right of way of some 250 feet. |
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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. |