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Show 2. tbat said land is not naturally irrigated or watered. nor overflowed at any season of the year by the- foregoing or any natural stream, spring. or other body of water: that I expect to obtain my water supply to irrigate said land that the character of the soil is ) <Kas-<Lt ' C^tX^W , a rffO that said land will not. without artificial irrigation. produce an agricultural crop uf any kind in amount reasonably remunerative. and that it will not. when untied by grazing animals. produce native grasses sufficient in quantity to make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasun>: that there are no trees growing on said land, but that the same is devoid of timber: said land does not eontain moisture sufficient to produce a natural growth of trees: that the same is essentially dry and arid laud, wholly unfit for cultivation without artificial irrigation; that said land can not be successfully cultivated without being reclaimed by conducting water thereon; that said land has hitherto been unappropriated, unoccupied, and unsettled because, it has been impossible to cultivate it successfully on account of itd dry and arid condition; that it is a fact well known, patent, and notorious, that the same will not, in its natural condition, produce any crop; that no portion of said land has ever been reclaimed by conducting water thereon. and that than are no lands in the vicinity of this tract that are 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 quarts, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, 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 said land is worked for mineral during any part of the year by any person or persons; that said land is essentially non-mineral land, and tbat my declaration therefor is not made for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining title to mineral land, timber land, or agricultural land, but for the purpose of faithfully reclaiming the land above described by conducting water thereon within three years from date of entry. from. My postrofflce address is |
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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. |