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Show -25- and mentioned as beneficiaries of said measures; that each and all of the acts and proceedings of said Coachella District in relation to said Project have been had and taken in pursuance of said facts and in reliance upon the participation in said Project of said lands in said Coachella District, as a part of the area to be served by said All American Canal. That in the furtherance of said All American Canal Project, said Coachella District has expended, from the funds derived by it from taxation upon property in said Coachella District, amounts of money exceeding in the aggregate the sum of $150,000.00. Finding No. 29. That the greater part of the lands within said Coachella District is unproductive desert land, but is held in private ownership; that with water provided for irrigation by said All American Canal said unproductive lands in said "area to be included" can be intensively developed for specialty crops such as dates, grapefruit and early grapes, and will produce profitable crops of great value, and said lands will, by reason of the supply of water from the Colorado River, become of very great value, whereas said lands without such water have little value; that, acting in reliance upon and in contemplation of receiving water from the Colorado River to serve said lands in said Coachella District, the landowners owning said unproductive lands have for more than fifteen years last past continued to pay taxes to said Coachella District and to the County of Riverside; that had said land owners not anticipated and relied upon receiving water from Colorado River, they would have failed and refused to pay such taxes, and the greater portion of said Coachella District would long since have been deeded to the State of California for delinquent taxes, as provided by law. |
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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] : California exhibits. |