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Show First Assistant Secretary Chandler to Acting Commissioner Stone, July 1, EBT " Denis Sullivan, on December 27, 1879, made desert land entry for the S. 1/2 of the NW. 1/4 and the N. 1/2 of the SW. 1/4, Sec. 20, T. 4 S., R. 5 W., Helena land district, Montana, and, on May 14, 1883, made final proof and payment for said tract. On August 2, 1884, William J. Gallahan, Albert W. Pillsbury and Christian Christianson addressed to H. J. Harrison, a special agent of the General Land Office, their sworn complaint against said entry, in which they charge non-compliance with the desert land act in the matter of irrigation, and that "Sullivan has no water right for this land." On August 13, 1884, as appears from the decision herein, your office directed that a hearing be had to determine the truthfulness of the allegation, "that Sullivan had not such prior appropriation of the water as would entitle him to use it for reclaiming said land." The hearing ordered was duly had before the local land officers May 13, 1885, the testimony, with the exception of one deposition taken by agreement, having all been previously taken before M. H. Lott, a notary public, of Madison county, Montana, and by him reduced to writing. On June 15, following, the local officers, after considering the evidence, found: That at the date Mr. Sullivan made his desert entry, No. 268, December 27, 1879, all the water in Wisconsin creek had been appropriated, and that the water of this creek was the only source from which he could procure 111-45 |
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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] : |