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Show The Improvement District was organized in order to utilize the water rights owned by the Palo Verde Irrigation District for lands in the area known as the "Lower Palo Verde Mesa", which water rights date back to 1877, as hereinafter will be more specifically set forth in this application. These lands have not previously been included in the District proper, as most of them were and still are entered but unpatented government lands. During the wars and depression years extensions of time within which to make Final Proof were granted by Congress, and it has not been until these extensions were no longer granted that the entrymen joined together and applied to the Palo Verde Irrigation District for inclusion of their lands within the boundaries of the District. By resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Palo Verde Irrigation District of May 9, 1952, a certified copy of which is attached hereto, marked "Exhibit C", the request of the Blythe Mesa Pre-Organization Group, consisting primarily of desert land entrymen, for inclusion of their lands within the District was favorably considered, and the Report of a Mesa Committee setting forth the terms under which the lands should be included, was approved and accepted. Since the date of this resolution said government lands on the Mesa have been included within the boundaries of the Palo Verde Irrigation District and said area, for the purpose of financing the construction of canals and a complete water distribution system for that area, has been designated as "Improvement District No. 1" of the Palo Verde Irrigation District. The selection of these lands for inclusion is more specifically set forth in Harrison & Woolley's Engineering Report for Improvement District No. 1 (Mesa), dated May, 1953, |
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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] : |