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Show -16- making further applications for the appropriation of water, it is expected that the applications will be filed. On the Orland and Klamath Project filings were made in conformance with State law. Region 3 (which includes southern California, Arizona, and southern Nevada and, in particular, the Boulder Canyon Project) The Regional Counsel reports that under date of July 8, 1905, a notice of appropriation of 3,000 second-feet of water of the waters of the Colorado River was posted on the left bank of the Colorado River, under the provisions of the Act of June 17, 1902, and under date of July 8, 1905, a notice of appropriation of 6,000 second-feet of the waters of the Colorado River was posted on the right bank of the Colorado River. In both instances the source of supply was the Colorado River and the means of diversion-Laguna Dam. In a report dated December 22, 1904, to the Secretary of the Interior, on the joint resolution passed April 23, 1904 (33 Stat. 591), the Director of the Geological Survey stated that it was generally conceded that because of the navigability of the lower part of the Colorado River its waters were not subject to appropriation, and notices filed in conformity with the customs of Arizona and California were invalid. This report was transmitted to the Congress by the Department with a letter dated January 6, 1905. The opinion of Assistant Attorney General Campbell, dated February 6, 1905 (33 L. D. 391), to which reference has been made, concurred with the above view. Section 25 of the Act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. 189, 244), authorized the Secretary of the Interior to divert |
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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. |