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Show Stricken March 17,/1945 Honorable Harold L> Iokes Secretary of the Interior Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Secretaryi There are some legal questions which have been bothering am for some time, and not being a lawyer, I have sought advice from several attorneys. I am not quite satisfied yet with conflicting answers I have received and am now coming to you to ask the same questions, which arse as follows Under the terms of existing law pertaining to the waters of the Colorado River, and under the terms of the contract entered into between the Governor of Arizona and the Secretary of the Interior, whereby Arizona may take 2,800,000 acre feet of water out of the Colorado River, my questions are First, may that water be ta^en out either above or below Boulder Dam? and^ second, is any water diverted by the Headgate Rook Dam onto the Colorado Indian Reservation at Parker considered as a part of that 2,800,000 acres of the contract? / V I recall that that Indian Reservation was set aside early in the history of Arizona territory and that Charles D. Poston,, as Indian Agent, began taking water\out of the Colorado River for those Indians on that reservation 'three decades before the end of/the last century. Of course, I art, very anxious to see all of that very fine body of°land along the Colorado River below Parker on that oldest of Arizona Indian Reservations, fullyja'nd sufficiently supplied with water for irrigation. |
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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] : |