AZ vs. CA:21 California Exhibits, Vol. XXI; Nos. 4501-4597

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-26- dian Irrigation Service, recommended the adoption of an agreement whereby the Cotton Land Company proposed to sell water rights to the Indian allotments lying within their levee district at $25.00 per acre, as required. The Land Company was at this time selling land to white settlers at $60.00 per acre, including the water right. There was at this time in addition to the tentative Indian allotments lying within the area protected by the Cotton Land Company's levee, an area of about six square miles, comprising lands on the former military reservation which had lately been allotted; but which was outside of the levee. It was therefore deemed necessary to take steps to protect and reclaim this land. In December of 1910, Chief Engineer Code, accompanied by Consulting Engineer Quinton, visited the Reservation for the purpose of outlining some plan for the reclamation of this remaining land. It was decided to build a levee on a line parallel with and about 1000 feet east of the left bank of the river, and crossing the southern boundary of the Reservation to connect with the levee then being constructed by the Cotton Land Company. This levee would reclaim about 4,000 acres of land. On February 2, 1911, by Executive Order, about 18,000 acres of low-lands embraced in the even-numbered sections to the east of the river in the Mojave Valley, and not included in the former military reservation, was made a part of the Mojave Indian Reservation. A large portion of this land had already been allotted to the Indians of this Agency. In the spring of 1911, a location survey for the levee as above planned was made by Assistant Engineer