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Show NOTICE OP WATER APPROPRIATION AND RESERVATION Notice is hereby given that the United Statejhas reserved, located, claimed, and appropriated, and does hereby reserve, locate, claim and appropriate perpetually, the waters of the Gila River and of its sources and tributaries here flowing, to the extent of two thousand cubic feet of water per second of time, for the purpose of irrigating lands comprised in the 011a River Indian Reservation and public and private lands In Final County, Arizona, and for domestic and other beneficial uses thereon; and that The United States intends to construct and maintain a dam across the Gila River for the diversion therefrcm of said water at or in the vicinity of the point where this notice is posted, which is in the NW^ of Section 8, in Township Ij. South, Range 11 East, and near the center of s aid section; and that The United States intends to construct and maintain a canal for the carriage of said water to the lands aforesaid, commencing at the point of diversion of said water, which will be at or near said dam, and running in a generally southwesternly direction to its terminus in the Little Gile River, so-called, which is a part of the system of canals and ditches now existing and being operated on said reservation. Said terminus will be situate at a point in Township 5 South, Range 8 East, and the United States intends, by construction or otherwise to provide said canal with branch and lateral canals and ditches sufficient to reach and supply all of the lands aforesaid; and that The United States, in addition to the waters herein above mentioned as reserved, located, claimed and appropriated, reserves to itself and to the Indians of said reservation, and to its other Indian wards interested in any way therein, all waters of the Gila River, and all property rights of any nature heretofore reserved, appropriated, used or claimed by, or for the United States, or its Indian wards, or any of them. By direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Dated this the 22 day of May, 1916. |
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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. |