AZ vs. CA:08 California Exhibits, Vol. VIII; Nos. 371-398F

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CALIFORNIA DEFENDANTS Exhibit No. 373 Identification: .................... Admitted: JUL..1.....-1957 Excerpt from House Document No. 1262, 61st Cong., 3d Session-Printed in 1911. Message dated Jan. 5, 1911, from the President to the Congress transmitting Report of Board of Army Engineers in relation to Reclamation Fund (Report is dated November 28, 1910). Section III. Yuma Project, Arizona-California. 1. This project was visited by the board on October 7, 1910, and a public hearing was held at Yuma in the evening of that day. 2. Location.-The project lies along the Colorado River between the Mexican boundary and a point 40 miles north of it, in Arizona and California. It is, therefore, interstate in character. The Southern Pacific Railway passes through the project from east to west, about one-third of the project lying to the north and two-thirds to the south. 3. Description.-A portion of the project, comprising 16,000 acres of Indian reservation land, lies in California, the remainder, 115,000 acres, lying in Yuma County, Ariz. Of this area, 55,000 acres are bottom lands between Yuma and the Mexican boundary; 20,000 are in the lower Gila Valley above Yuma; and 40,000 acres are mesa lands south and east of Yuma. The water for the project will be taken from the Colorado River. The main engineering