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Show -42- These figures indicate that while Arizona, under the proposed tri-State treaty, would have a definite allotment of 2,800,000 acre-feet of the allocated waters of the main stream, her election, should she abide by this Swing-Johnson measure, to reserve the flow of the Gila for her exclusive beneficial consumptive use, would operate to reduce that allocation to 1,740,000 acre-feet, or about the amount of water necessary for the reclamation of 450,000 acres of land, of which nearly half would be absorbed by the Yuma Project and the Parker Indian Reservation, and an additional amount by projects on the Little Colorado River and other Arizona tributaries exclusive of the Gila. With a millon or more acres of Arizona land susceptible of practical reclamation from the Colorado, this division of water would be neither adequate nor just. If, by another way of figuring, it was the intention of Congress to wholly eliminate the Gila from all reckonings, thus reducing the amount of unallocated waters in the main stream to 880,000 acre-feet, after checking off an allowance of a million acre-feet to Mexico, Arizona would then receive her proposed allocation of 2,800,000 acre-feet, plus a possible 440,000 acre-feet of unallocated water, or a total from the main stream of 3,240,000 acre-feet, as against 4,840,000 to California. This would permit the total development in Arizona of approximately 800,000 acres of land from the main Colorado River and from the Arizona tributaries of the Colorado exclusive of the Gila. However, the language of the measure does not justify this latter assumption. |
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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] : |