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Show -3- (2) Construction: commenced on October 1, 1934, but on November 10, 1934, the Governor of Arizona interrupted construction by ordering the Arizona National Guard to take possession of the Parker Dam site area in Arizona, contending that the Congress of the United States had not authorized construction of the dam. The United States immediately brought suit in the Supreme Court seeking to enjoin Arizona from interfering with the construction of the Dam (U. S. v. Arizona, 295 U. S. 174 (1935)), and on February 13, 1935, under a temporary restraining order, the Secretary of the Interior authorized a resumption of construction. The Supreme Court, however, rendered a decision in case on April 29, 1935, sustaining the Arizona contention, and all work on Parker Dam was immediately stopped by the contractors with the tunnel portal cuts virtually completed and 104 feet of tunnel excavated. The Bureau of Reclamation continued to completion the construction of the unfinished goverment camp. Construction of Parker Dam was resumed on October 1, 1935, after the United States Congress, by the Rivers and Harbors Act (August 30, 1935, 49 Stat. 1039) specifically authorized construction of the Dam and on the part of the U. S. ratified all the contracts previously made by it in connection therewith. |
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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. |