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Show 2 horse power, and such other dams and canal sites on the Colorado River and tributaries which were made thereafter as amendatory filings thereto, to irrigate an additional 1,500,000 acres of land in Arizona; and Whereas, the state of Arizona and those claiming water under said state and Fred T. Colter, as trustee, has made the above water filings before the Federal Power Commission and the state water commissioner and has kept up due and reasonable diligence therefor; and Whereas, most of the lands under said projects have been patented and homesteaded and irrigation districts and proposed irrigation districts have been formed thereunder for the purpose of getting water on said lands; and Whereas, this method of starting development in the highest reaches of the Colorado River and its tributaries wil obtain the maximum development of the river to get the greatest return of reflow, and that reflow and re-use of water, will eventually return to the river and lower lands and provide sufficient water for the 2,000,000 acres of land in Mexico, and Whereas, the United States supreme court in its recent decision sustained the rights of Arizona and those claiming to appropriate present and future water; and Whereas, if Arizona would consent to the Santa Fe-Tri-State compact or the Boulder Canyon Project Act or Secretary of the Interior Wilbur's offer to contract with Arizona, which compacts and act the United States supreme court held we were not bound by, the waters of Arizona and the United States would first and forever go to Mexico and for one acre which would be irrigated in Mexico there would be four acres left dry in the United States of America, leaving Arizona a desert forever; and |
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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. |