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Show -2- of America, and of the President of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, for the purpose of identification") and are for every purpose of the interpretation, construction and consideration of this memorandum, and of the rights of the parties hereunder to be deemed, held, read and considered as if fully written out or printed herein, and deemed a part hereof. And whereas the lands embraced within the district of lands described in Section three (3) of Article IV of said Articles of Incorporation are naturally desert and arid and incapable of proper cultivation without irrigation, and unless the waters of the Salt and Verde Rivers in Arizona and their tributaries be impounded and the flow thereof otherwise regulated and controlled will, to a greater or less extent, remain unreclaimed, unfit for habitation and uncultivated, in which condition they, or a great part thereof, are now. And whereas the Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America contemplates the construction of certain irrigation works under the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands," approved June 17, 1902, in and across Salt River at a point about 32 miles up the course of said Salt River above the confluence of the Verde River and said Salt River, said point being near the mouth of Tonto Creek, for the purpose of there impounding the waters of said Salt River and otherwise regulating and controlling the flow of water therein, and works necessarily or conveniently incident thereto, for the use of said waters for the reclamation of arid lands along the course of said Salt River and, |
