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

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2. spring, or other body of water; that I expect to obtain my water supply to irrigate said land any natural stream that the character of the soil in that said land will not, without artificial irrigation, produce an agricultural crop of any kind in amount reasonably remunerative, and that it will not, when unfed by grazing animals, produce native grasses sufficient in quantity to make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasons; that there are no trees growing on said land, but that the same is devoid of timber; said land does not contain moisture sufficient to produce a natural growth of trees: that the same is essentially dry nnd arid land, wholly unlit for cultivation without artificial irrigation ; that said laud can not 1m-successfully cultivated without being reclaimed by conducting water thereon; that said laud has hitherto been uuap- .<ated, unoccupied, and unsettled because it has been impossible to cultivate it successfullyr on account of its dry and •rid condition; that it U a fact well known, patent, and notorious, that the whim- «ill not. in its natural aondition, produce any crop; that no portion of said html has ever been reclaimed by endu. tini; water lh.-i.-oit. and that there are no lands in the vicinity of this tract.that arc occupied by settlers and cultivated without artificial irrigation. And I further declare that there is not, to my knowledge, within the limits of said land. any vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, beariing gold, silver, cinnibar, lead, tin, or copper, or any deposit of coal; that there is not, within the limits of said land, to my knowledge, any placer, cement, gravel, or other valuable mineral deposit or salines; that no portion of said land is claimed for mining purposes under the local customs or rules of miners or otherwise; that no portion of aaid land is worked for mineral during any part of the year by any person or peraooa; thst said land is essentially noil -mineral hind, and that my declaration therefor.- is not made for the parpose of frsadulently obtaining title to mineral land, timlter land, or agricultural land, but for the \n»ryum <>> (mlthftill/ raddling the land above described by conducting water thereon within three years from date of entry. My post-office addnariS^ NOTKK. Tm *^r I HEBEBV CKBTIPY that the foregoing affidavit was read to affiant in my presence Im-Ioic he signed his aame thereto; that said affiant is to me personally known (m him IwpwwwttwWretwrttT iiii nlilieil liifnim .....by ), and that I verily l»elieve him to Ik-a credible person auif the