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

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39 water, except in accordance with and subject to the Colorado River Compact, and from using any of the 8,000,000 acre-feet thereof now flowing in the main stream of said river, except by contract with the Secretary of the Interior, and upon payment of such charges as he may prescribe; it will be impossible to appropriate water for the irrigation of the whole or any part of the 2,000,000 acres of unirrigated but irrigable land referred to in paragraphs IX, X and XI hereof; it will be impossible to finance the irrigation projects referred to in said paragraphs, or any other irrigation project in Arizona, or to construct the dams, reservoirs, canals and other works necessary for the irrigation of the whole or any part of said land; all of said land will remain forever unirrigated, uncultivated, uninhabited, unused, and incapable of use; it will be impossible for the power projects mentioned in said paragraph XI to carry out their plans for generating and selling electric power at plants to be constructed at the sites mentioned in said paragraphs X and IX; the great increase in population, wealth, prosperity and taxable resources of said State, which would have resulted from the irrigation of said land and from the use of said power sites, will be prevented and made impossible; and said State will thereby suffer great and irreparable injury, for which it has and can have no adequate remedy at law. WHEREFORE, your complainant prays that the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act, and each a*rd every part thereof, be decreed to be unconstitutional, void and of no effect; that the defendants and each of them be permanently enjoined and restrained from enforcing or carrying out said compact or said act, or any of the provisions thereof, and from carrying out the three pretended contracts hereinabove