AZ vs. CA:07 California Exhibits, Vol. VII; Nos. 326-370

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__2__ This last Canal is to be Sixty (60) feet wide and four (4) feet deep, and run a South Westerly course through the Colorado bottom. We claim all these locations for Reclamation by means of which levees and dams to hold the waste water to fill the very uneven land and fill up all lakes and swamps and sloughs desired for cultivation. We find that the water of the Colorado River at certain seasons of the year contain 1/8 mud and we find that all the land that is too low to reclaim by levees for cultivation, by the aid of the Canals we can raise the land and with the natural mud coming into the Canal. We claim both mud and water for the purposes above mentioned. We also claim Olive Slough as a reservory. We also claim the water for navigation, irrigation, manufacturing and for other domestic purposes. These canals are intended to irrigate all the lands in Townships 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Ranges 21, 22, 23, 24 East, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, San Diego County, California, and to assist to reclaim reclamation Swamp Land District No. 310 as a part of our reclamation enterprise. Dec. 15, 1878 ) Witness ) Wm. A. Calloway) Signed O. P. Calloway T. H. Blythe " By O. P. Calloway Recorded at the request of O. P. Calloway, December 25th 1878 at 15 minutes past 7 o'clock P. M. D. A. Johnson, County Recorder By Gilbert Pennie, Deputy