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Show 22. on August 5, 1911, caused a notice to be posted appropriating 200,000 miners inches of the waters of the Colorado River at this point. This notice 1b recorded in book 3 of Water Claims, page 17, Records of Riverside County. No appropriation of water has been made under this filing. The only actual appropriation of water from the Colorado River, for the purpose of irrigating lands in the Palo Verde Valley, is being made by the Palo Verde Mutual Water Company. However, the records of Riverside County, California, show that numerous water filings have been made on the waters of the Colorado River In the vicinity of Blaclc Point , with the purpose of Irrigating , lands situate In the Palo Verde Valley, Palo Verde Mesa, and ChucKawalla Valley. in no case, however, have any of the locators made any effort to put the water to beneficial use; and any rights they al#ht have obtained have lapsed, as, under the laws of the state of California, the claimant Is required within sixty days after posting a notice of water appropriation to commence the construction of tte woi-Ks by which it Is intended to divert the water. The sufficiency of the water supply for the Palo Verde .Mutual Water Company depends upon the amount of water it can divert from the Colorado River. At the Calif. Ex. No. 339. |
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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. |