AZ vs. CA:20 California Exhibits, Vol. XX; Nos. 4050-4092

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-14- conditions. The agreement provided, also, for the District to transfer to the United States its rights to the District's filings and permits to appropriate water. Chowchilla Farms Chowchilla Farms, Inc., owned many thousands of acres of land, which received their principal supply of water via the Chowchilla Canal, which, in turn, takes water from the right bank of the San Joaquin River. It owned certain riparian, appropriative, and prescriptive rights to water from that river. On October 2, 1939, the United States entered into a contract and deed with the Company for the purchase of these rights and secured the consent of Chowchilla Farms to operate the project as planned. Herminghaus Land of Edison Securities Company Report No. 8 of the Water Project Authority of the State of California shows that some 17,150 acres of the Herminghaus ranch lands, then owned by the Edison Securities Company, were adjacent to the San Joaquin River and Fresno Slough, of which 16,230 acres were claimed to be riparian to the San Joaquin River, to sloughs that take water therefrom, or to Fresno Slough. By contract dated September 5, 1944, the United States purchased the rights of the Company. Land Along the East Side of the San Joaquin River Between Chowchilla Farms and Stevenson Colony In this area there is a group of large ranches and the water rights of each were appraised. Contracts were entered into with a number of the landowners and the right to the use of approximately 8,820 acre-feet of water per