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Show ranging from 20° to 122°. The rainfall is scant, varying from 3 to 5 inches per annum, and usually falls in the form of light showers in July and August, or during the winter months. Violent wind storms are frequent. Since 1882, when the Santa Fe Railroad was constructed, supplies have been brought in by wagon or boat from Needles, the nearest rail-road point, which is 14 miles south. Prior to this time all supplies were brought up from Yuma or the Gulf of Lower California by boats plying on the Colorado River. -Ft. Mojave Indian Reservation- The present Ft. Mojave Indian Reservation includes, what was formerly the Camp Mojave Military Reservation; a tract about 3 miles square embracing about 5,582 acres of land in Nevada, Arizona and California; and the Camp Mojave Hay and Wood Reservation of about 9,115 acres. Later, by a ruling of the Department, (March 18, 1903) the intermediate tract of land between the military reservation and the hay and wood reservation, bounded on the west by the Colorado River and on the east by a line running from station No. 1 of the hay and wood reserve to station No. 1 of the Military reserve, was included in the tract reserved for Indian School purposes. There is also included and made a part of this reservation by Executive Order of Feb. 2, 1911, about 18,000 acres of bottom lands embraced in the even-numbered sections in the Mojave Valley. The odd-numbered sections within this area were granted by the government to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad,- now the Santa Fe Railroad, and were later (1904) sold by the Railway Company to the Rio Colorado Land and Irrigation Company. |
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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. |