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Show NOTICE OP WATER APPROPRIATION. Notice is hereby given that the United States of America hereby locates, claims, and appropriates perpetually the waters of the wash or arroyo known as the Ak-chin wash (Sometimes called the Vekol wash) to the extend of 10,000 (Ten Thousand) acre feet for the purpose of irrigation and domestic use on lands reserved for Indians in the County of Pinal, Arizona: the said lands which it is intended to irrigate from the waters of the said wash being in Townships 4 and 5 south; Ranges 2 and 3 east of the Gila and Salt River Meridian; the said Ak-chin wash being a torrential stream in Arizona, without regular or normal flow, whose flood waters are tributary to the Santa Cruz river or creek, and which flow into the channel or channels of the Santa Cruz river at points in the vicinity of the town of Maricopa, Arizona, and the Pima Indian reservation of the Gila River, Arizona. Tne United States intends to construct and maintain a canal for the carriage and distribution of the said water from the Ak-chin wash or arroyo, for the irrigation of the Indian lands as hereinbefore described, said canal to commence at a point near the mouth of the said wash where it debouches or spreads out on to the level plain in approximately Township 5 South, range 3 east, Sections 6 and 7 of the Gila and Salt River Meridian, and running approximately east and west or in such other direction as is best suited to the irrigating of the hereinbefore described Indian lands. The right to change the point of diversion of said water is expressly reserved. This notice shall not be deemed in any particular a waiver of any property interests or right now or heretofore reserved, held, or claimed by the United States for Indians under any Acts of Congress or the Executive Department of the Government or under filings, notices, locations, appropriations, or claims heretofore made, posted, recorded or acquired by purchase or conveyance, by or to the United States or its Indian wards. Dated this 7th day of June, 1912. By direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Graves Moore. Witness: Herbert Marten. Supervisor in charge. |
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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. |