AZ vs. CA:25 California Exhibits, Vol. XXV; Nos. 7501-7859

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13 the business of .storing and selling water, and in the business of generating and selling electric power in Arizona, and to utilize said dam sites and reservoir sites, including the one at Black Canyon, for that purpose. Said businesses and the property used in connection therewith would be subject to taxation and would yield substantial revenues to the State of Arizona. XII The State of Arizona was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1912. Upon its admission to the Union, said State acquired, has ever since possessed and exercised, and now possesses and exercises, sovereign jurisdiction and control of all water within its boundaries, including the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The Constitution of the State of Arizona provides that the common law doctrine of riparian water rights shall not obtain or be of any force or effect in said State. Statutes of the State of Arizona, heretofore duly enacted and now in force, being sections 3280 to 3286, inclusive, of the Revised Code of 1928, and sections 1 and 3 of Chapter 102 of the Session Laws of 1929, regulate and control the storage, diversion, appropriation and use of water, and the construction, operation and maintenance of dams and reservoirs in said State. A copy of said statutes is appended hereto at page 43. Said statutes provide that all water flowing in streams or other natural channels belongs to the public and is subject to appropriation; that the person first appropriating water shall have the better right thereto; that any person intending to appropriate water shall apply to the State Water Commissioner for a permit to make such appropriation; that if such application is approved by said Commissioner, the applicant may appropriate such water and construct