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Show lL>0f)G7 ....; .ooncil has set aside V,8'0 aces to be developed by the iducation j-'ivieion rs a trnininr ground to teacn agriculture by actual practice on the part of the student. This amount added to the 12,500 acres above mentioned would give a total of 15,300 ucres that mi tint be expected to be put into cultivation eay within 10 or 15 years from the time it is made available through the progress of the construction of the project. It is possible that these figures may be augmented as a result of the family case study heretofore mentioned. In addition to the 15,300 acres shown to be needed in the not too distant future for individual family effort and tribal enterprise, end for educational facilities, it is planned to rnserve a further area of from 7,500 to 8,000 acres to be developed and used for the production of revenue needed for home building; road improvement, fencing, farm equipment, etc., in order that the Indian families nay be equipped not only for successful farming ventures, but also that they may live under hoi.ie and housing1 conditions that will be conducive to health i-.nd happiness. It has been suggested that part of the revenue that vould accrue from the operation of the unas-signed land might well be applied on the operation and maintenance charges of the individual assignees bo as to lessen this burden on the Indian farmers. Each member of the Colorado River Tribes will have either a direct or an indirect interest in the revenues produced by this surplus unassigned land, but none of it should be poid in casli in a per capita distribution, except in the case of the old and indigent. Undoubtedly Congress and the Court of Claims would offset against any compensation the fact that the Government, at no expense to the Indians, is setting up a development project which will add immensely to the value of the irrigable land within its boundaries. When Congress authorized allotments of ten acres of irrigable land, it specified that these allotments were to be of irrigated land, and provided the funds for such irrigation. In other words, Congress recognized an obligation to provide irrigation water for the lands it authorized to be allotted to the Colorado River Indian Tribes. The total area of this allotted land, which lies in a more or less compact body within the northern end of the irrigation project, is approximately 9,000 acres. The cost of subjugating and supplying water to any additional lands would therefore constitute the offBet against the value of the grazing privilege on the 75,000 to 80,000 acre* to be used for colonization purposes. GRAZING PRIVILEGES TO BE LOST The Colorado River Indian Irrigation Project is planned to cover approximately 100,000 acres of land, all of it of course within the borders of the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Included within the boundaries of the new and revamped project is the smaller pumping project heretofore 11 |
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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] : |