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

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[4] Range 22 East, S. B. Meridian, containing 160 acres, situated in Riverside County, California within the Los (County and State.) Angeles land district. 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 None and that there is through or upon said (State what stream or body of water and describe the same.) land None that said land is not naturally irrigated or (Name and describe all water courses, springs, or other bodies of water.) 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 expect to obtain my water supply to irrigate said land from The Palo Verde Mutual Water Company; that the character of the soil is Sandy loam; 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; 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 notorious that the same will not, in its natural condition, produce any crop; that no portion of said land