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Show [14] within the meaning of the second section of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1877, entitled "An act to provide for the sale of desert lands in certain States and Territories"; 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 water to irrigate said land can be obtained through Imperial Water Co., No. 1, from the Colorado River, a distance of about 60 miles from said land; that the character of the soil is an alluvial deposit; that it produces no natural growth whatever, except ........................; 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 |
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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] : |