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Show [4] S. B. Meridian, containing 160 acres, situated in River- ( County side Co., Cal., within the Los Angeles land district. and State.) 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, nor have I had assigned to me any lands entered under said act; that since August 30, 1890, I have not entered and acquired title to, nor am I now claiming, under an entry made under any of the nonmineral public-land laws, an amount of land which, together with the land now applied for, will exceed in the aggregate 320 acres; that the land above described borders on no stream or body of water and that there (State what stream or body of water and describe the same.) is through or upon said land no water course, spring or (Name and describe all water courses, springs, or other bodies of water.) body of water; that said land is not naturally irrigated or watered, nor overflowed at any season of the year by the foregoing or any other natural stream, spring, or other body of water; that I except to obtain my water supply to irrigate said land from wells to be bored on said land; that the character of the soil is sediment 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 on said land except mesquite a plant of desert growth that the same is essentially dry and arid land, wholly unfit for cultivation without artificial irrigation; that said land can not be successfully cultivated without being reclaimed by conducting water thereon; that it is a fact well known, patent, and no- |
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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] : |