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Show [4] approved March 3, 1877, entitled "An act to provide for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories," as amended by act of March 3, 1891. The land which I intend to reclaim is desert land and is situated in San Diego county, in the Los Angeles land district, and is described as follows, to wit: The East Half of North West Quarter and the North East Quarter of Sec. 19 and West Half of the North West Quarter of Section 20, Township No. 15 South, Range No. 14 East, S. B. M., containing 320 acres. I further depose and declare that I have made no other declaration for desert lands nor any other entry under the provisions of said act; that since August 30, 1890, I have not entered under the land laws of the United States, or filed upon, nor do I hold by assignment under the act of March 3, 1891, a quantity of land which, with the tracts now applied for, would make more than 320 acres; that I have made an actual personal examination of each and every legal subdivision of the land above described; that said land does not border upon any stream or body of water; that there are no water courses, springs or other bodies of water through or upon said land; that said land is not naturally irrigated or watered, nor overflowed at any season of the year by any natural stream, spring, or other body of water; that I, in common with the other stockholders of Imperial Water Co., No. 1, expect to obtain my water supply to irrigate said land from the Colorado river, through said water Co., of which I am a stockholder, and I hereby refer to the map heretofore filed by said Imperial Water Co., No. 1, in the Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal., show- |
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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] : |