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Show 54 THE ALI/-AMEBICAJS" CA2TAX*. If the canal below the siphon drop is constructed at a capacity of 9,000 second-feet, Yuma project, again following the provisions of the agreement of October 23, 1918, should contribute two-ninths of its cost down to Araz. In that event the contribution of Yuma project to the cost of a power plant at or near Pilot Knob should again be determined by the ratio that 8,500 water horsepower bears to the total amount of water horsepower for which the plant is planned. Should the power plant near Pilot Knob be abandoned in whole or in part and the utilization of the canal flow for power be transferred to the proposed mesa power stations, the same interest in the power should be reserved to the Yuma project as if the power plant were at or near Pilot Knob. The Yuma project should not, in that event, be required to duplicate its investment in a power plant. The cost of the transfer of any plant already established should fall entirely upon the Imperial Valley lands. But if the Yuma project has not contributed anything toward the cost of a plant at or near Pilot Knob, then, in order to effect the utilization of 4,000 second-feet of water for power and to participate in the profits from the sale of power, the Yuma project should contribute the same portion of the cost of the power plant at the mesa power stations as it would have contributed under participation in power development near Pilot Knob, and should be allowed to participate in the profits from the power output of these stations to a like extent. The cost of transmitting power for the Yuma project back to Pilot Knob, or to any other point that may be mutually satisfactory, should fall entirely upon the Imperial Valley both in the matter of first cost and operating and maintenance costs. The Yuma project would thus maintain any already established interest in the power wherever developed. The participation of Imperial Valley interests outside of Imperial Irrigation District, as for example the east mesa area in an all-Ameri-can canal project and in the power therefrom, should be on the following basis: Imperial Irrigation District will be permitted, as set forth in the agreement approved by the Secretary of the Interior bearing date, October 23, 1918, to enjoy the benefits of a diversion at the Laguna Dam on condition that it pay to the United States in installments, without interest, $1,600,000 {which is about four-fifths of the cost of the structure). If, now, a larger area is to be served with water diverted at the dam than approximately 515,000 acres of net irrigable lands in the district, then the larger area should assume a proportionally larger part of the cost of the dam. The total net area of irrigable land, in the Imperial Valley for which the all-American canal is planned, 900,000 acres, should bear in round numbers about |
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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. |