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Show -3- proposition, and have expended nearly $40,000 upon this end of the work. It may seem that the expenditure is large as compared with my estimates of the amount required in the construction fund; but it must be remembered that the small first cost required to place the enterprise on a self-supporting- basis does not lessen the magnitude of final development, and a survey of the entire field was necessary before final plans could be determined upon. That the final plans will allow the expenditure of a much smaller sum than was at first thought possible, is the direct result of a comparatively large expenditure in preliminary investigations. Area Susceptible of Irrigation. Total. The total area that may be brought under this system of canals in Lower California, U. S. A., is approximately 2,050,000 acres situated 800,000 acres in Lower California, and 1,250,000 acres in California. Waste: With the exception of 190,000 acres in the Salton Sink, California, there are no largebodies of waste lands in Lower California is 700,000, and in the United less than in any tract that I have ever examined; but inasmuch, as the exact grading of lands is a work of great detail and expense, I have thought it advisable to estimate as a working basis that the acreage of good agricultural lands. In fact, the percentage of bad lands is very much States 900,000, a total of 1,600,000. This is a safe assumption. Adaptability of the Lands for Irrigation. With the exception of about 30,000 acres of sandy mesa under the east branch survey, and the lands lying between the Salton Sink and Indio, there is but little change |
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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] : California exhibits. |