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Show [Stamp] FILED Jan 20 1923 Office State Engineer, Santa Fe, N. M. #0455 State of New Mexico: County of Bernalillo. I, H. F. Robinson, a resident of Albuquerque, in the County of Bernalillo, State of New Mexico, being first duly sworn, upon my oath state and declare that I am a Supervising Engineer in the United States Indian Irrigation Service, duly commissioned by the Secretary of the Interior and specifically authorized to make water filings on and in behalf of the United States Indian Service and the various Indians, wards of the government, in the Fifth Irrigation District, comprising Colorado, New Mexico, and portions of Arizona and Utah: THAT the Navajo Indians living on lands formerly Indian reservation, now in part allotted to the said Navajo Indians in Township 16 North, Range 14 West, N. M. P. M., and other adjacent townships, have, according to mutual agreement and mutual concessions, and by their joint effort and joint capital built and maintained for a period unknown to the affiant, but believed to be not less than thirty years, and probably prior to the year 1880, a water reservoir or lake, known as Mariano Lake, which is situated in the Southwest %. of Section 26, the South y2 of the North y2 and the South T/2 of Section 27, the East y2 of the Southeast %. of Section 28 and the Northwest Y^. of the Northwest *4 of Section 35, in the township and range aforesaid, for the purpose of conserving flood waters and using the same for domestic and stock purposes, and they have since the date of con- |
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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. |