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Show [34] Mr. Meritt [Edgar B. Meritt, Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs]. I offer for the record the following justification: Irrigation, Colorado River Reservation, Ariz, (reimbursable). Fiscal year ending June 30, 1918: Amount appropriated ........................................................ $15,000.00 Fiscal year ended June 30, 1917: Unexpended balance from previous years...................... 806.56 Amount appropriated ...................................................... 15,000.00 Total .............................................................................. 15,806.56 Amount expended............................................................ 15,466.33 Unexpended balance .................................................... 340.23 Analysis of expenditures: Regular employees ............................................................ 5,430.21 Irregular employees.......................................................... 4,882.17 Repairs and rent of buildings.......................................... 105.34 Traveling expenses ............................................................ 101.05 Transportation of supplies................................................ 1,535.36 Heat, light, and power, including fuel............................ 1,131.21 Drygoods, subsistence, forage, medical supplies.......... 1,703.95 Equipment .......................................................................... 574.34 Miscellaneous .................................................................... 2.70 Total.................................................................................. 15,466.33 IRRIGATION COLORADO RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, $120,000. Indian tribes, Mohave and Chemehuevi. Number of Indians on reservation, 1,300. Area of reservation, 240,640 acres. Area of irrigable land under constructed works, 3,500 acres. Area actually irrigated, 2,432 acres. Area of irrigable land under project, 10,000 acres. Area of irrigable land cultivated by Indians, 1,427 acres. Area of irrigable land cultivated by lessees, 1,005 acres. Cost of construction to June 30, 1917, $117,469.18. Cost of operation, maintenance, and miscellaneous to June 30, 1917, $50,480.18. Estimated additional cost to complete, $150,000. Estimated cost of construction per acre when completed, $27. |
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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. |
