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Show -10- I have spent large sums of money in Mexico, which was all necessary if the water was delivered to American users. The canal system when built was never intended to be operated except as one unit, and I regard it as impossible for two heads, one in Mexico and one in the United States, to properly maintain and operate the system. I have never received one dollar of the revenues collected for water delivered to Mexican lands, and this has amounted to a very large sum. Supposedly the money has been collected and retained by Andrade as Depositario. I do not know of any money having been paid out by Andrade for the maintenance of canals and structures in Mexico, out of the revenues he has received. Andrade has no tools, dredgers, scrapers, or anything, of the kind, and this is the period of the year when the most effective work can be accomplished. The consequence of his unnecessary act in driving me out of Mexico, must seriously hinder this work, and may make it impossible to meet the demands of 1914. I have left the material that I had accumulated on the bank of the canal to rebuild the Dredge "Gamma", in the hands of a watchman. I have moved the portable dredges into the United States, and all of the loose material that I had in Mexico, to a corral that I was obliged to rent in Mexicali when Andrade seized the warehouse that was built with California Development Company's money and had been used up to a few months ago by me |
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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. |