AZ vs. CA:11 California Exhibits, Vol. XI; Nos. 1001-1011; 1101-1109; 1201-1251; 1301-13431301-1343

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3 XXXII Pursuant to and under color of said act and of said regulations, said defendant Ray Lyman Wilbur has made a pretended contract with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a municipal corporation of the State of California, for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the diversion, sale and delivery of said water to said District for transportation to and consumptive use in said District. A copy of said pretended contract is appended hereto at page 79. Said District consists of the City of Los Angeles and the municipalities of Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Colton, Glendale, Pasadena, San Bernardino, San Marino, Santa Ana and Santa Monica, which are municipal corporations of the State of California. Said District is situated on the Pacific Coast approximately 300 miles distant from the Colorado River and outside of its drainage basin. No public land of the United States is contained within the limits of said District. Said pretended contract is for permanent service, and provides for the delivery to said District of 1,050,000 acre-feet of said stored water annually, and for the payment by said District of 25 cents per acre foot for water so delivered. Said .1,050,000 acre-feet of water, if sold and delivered to said District, as in said pretended contract provided, cannot, nor can any part thereof, be used for the reclamation of public land of the United States.. Said water is a part of the 8,000,-000 acre-feet of unappropriated water now flowing in the Colorado River, all of which is now subject to appropriation in Arizona. Said 1,050,000 acre-feet of water, together with the 6,500,000 acre-feet of water heretofore appropriated and now being used in said Lower Basin, will exceed the full amount of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water