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Show -29- Drainage Structure. Ten bridges containing 48,122 feet B. M. timber, 5 flumes containing 19,065 feet B. M., and one road culvert composed of 52 feet of 12-inch tile and 9.4 cubic yards concrete, have been constructed along the lines of the drainage ditches. The drainage operations were in charge of R. M. Priest, engineer, and Foreman John Levake. Yuma Project O. and M. Report, 1913. Pp. 4-5: Description of the System Operated. The system as completed to date and operated during 1913 is shown by the blueprint attached. The California Main canal from Laguna Dam to the Colorado River siphon, 13^2 miles in length; 54^ miles of canals in the unit of the Reservation opened to white settlement; 16 miles in the portion set aside for the Indians; 18^ miles on the Arizona side of the river just below Laguna Dam and known as the north Gila Valley, were operated during the year; making a total of 227.5 miles of canals. Two pumping plants, one at the end of the Arizona Main canal in the north Gila Valley to serve some 1,800 acres of canal, and one at Yuma, pumping from the river to approximately 300 acres of land adjacent to the town, were also operated during the year. Water was available for the 173 units opened to white settlement on the Indian Reservation at the time of opening in January, 1910. On the portion set aside for Indians water was available to 3,200 acres during 1910. The construction of canals on that portion west of the |
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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. |