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

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CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 338 Identification: May 17, 1957 Admitted: May 17, 1957 Notice of Water Appropriation. Notice is Hereby Given that I, C. W. Petit, a citizen of the United States of America, and of the State of California, do, for myself and for the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of said State of California, and having its principal place of business at Oxnard, in said State of California, hereby claim Two hundred thousand (200,000) miners inches, measured under a four inch pressure, of the Waters of the Colorado River, here flowing, both surface and underflow, and flowing by the intended point of diversion, as follows: That the intended point of diversion is the place where this notice is posted, and is situate at a point of rocks, commonly known as "Black Point", on the West bank of said Colorado River, on the Public Lands of the United States, and in Section seven, Township five South, Range twenty four East, S.B.B. & M. in the County of Riverside, State of California. That said Water is claimed for the purposes of irrigating Ranch lands, for domestic and stock uses, and for power for operating machinery and for generating electric energy and for other useful and beneficial purposes. That the place of intended use of said water is upon all of the lands of the Palo Verde Valley, in the Counties of Riverside and Imperial, State of California, which lie below, or Easterly of the bluff of the "Upper Mesa", and