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Show [29] ITEM 7 Department of the Interior. United States Land Office, El Centro, California Supplemental showing required by the General Land Office Under date of December 18th, 1924. State of California ) ) ss. County of Imperial ) I, James H. Hunter, of 232 No. Lucerne Blvd., Los Angeles, California, do solemnly swear that I am the same person who made Desert Land Entry, El Centro serial No. 04177 embracing the Wy2 NE^; NW^ SE^ Sec. 17, Tp. 14 S., R. 13 E., S.B.M.; that final proof was submitted in support of said entry on June 6th, 1924 and on December 18th, 1924 I was required to submit additional testimony as to cultivation and result of irrigation and tillage, and also produce a certificate from the Imperial Irrigation District showing that the said district has been sufficiently enlarged to include the entry above described. Sixteen acres of the land embraced in my said entry was actually planted to barley early in the spring of 1924 and was irrigated a number of times, the actual dates of which I do not now remember. Some of this crop came up in spots but the spring winds cut off the young shoots and stunted the growth to such an extent that only a few heads actually matured. |
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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] : |