AZ vs. CA:19 California Exhibits, Vol. XIX; Nos. 4000-4044

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[5] ing our plan of internal improvements; that the character of the soil is an alluvial deposit; that said land will not, without artificial irrigation, produce an agricultural crop of any kind in amount reasonably remunerative, and that it will not, when unfed by grazing animals, produce native grasses sufficient in quantity to make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasons; that there are no trees growing on said land, but that the same is devoid of timber; said land does not contain moisture sufficient to produce a natural growth of trees; that the same is essentially dry and arid land, wholly unfit for cultivation without artificial irrigation; that said land cannot be successfully cultivated without being reclaimed by conducting water thereon; that said land has hitherto been unappropriated, unoccupied, and unsettled, because it has been impossible to cultivate it successfully on account of its dry and arid condition; that it is a fact well known, patent, and notorious, that the same will not, in its natural condition, produce any crop; that no portion of said land has ever been reclaimed by conducting water thereon, and that there are no lands in the vicinity of this tract that are occupied by settlers and cultivated without artificial irrigation. And I further declare that there is not, to my knowledge, within the limits of said land any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, or copper, or any deposit of coal; that there is not, within the limits of said land, to my knowledge, any placer, cement, gravel or other valuable mineral deposit or salines; that no portion of said land is claimed for mining purposes under the local cus-