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Show -2- Original To................................ Accounting Office 12/31/21 Engineer Notified 12/30/21 Copy to Returns Office y/ This Agreement, Made this 17th day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, between the United States of America, by A. P. Davis, Director, duly authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and the Coachella Valley County Water District of the State of California by the President and Secretary of the said Coachella Valley County Water District, hereinafter referred to as the "Contractor". Witnesseth : That 2. Whereas, the United States Reclamation Service, in cooperation with various State agencies, irrigation districts and others, has partially completed a survey of a proposed reservoir site above the location of Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River, in the States of Nevada and Arizona, and 3. Whereas, work has been in progress during the past year on preliminary investigation of various dam sites in Boulder and Black Canyons of the Colorado River in connection therewith, and 4. Whereas, it is advisable to continue these said damsite investigations to determine the best and most feasible location for the construction of a high dam and the foundation conditions underlying the proposed dam sites, and |
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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. |