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Show -17- "Exhibit B" This Indenture, made and entered into this 28th day of December 1900, by and between The California Development Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New Jersey, one of the United States, party of the first part, and La Sociedad de Yrrigation y Terrenos de la Baja California (Sociedad Anonima), a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Republic of Mexico, party of the second part, Witnesseth: That, whereas, party of the first part is the owner of a certain tract of land situated in the County of San Diego, State of California, and particularly described as follows, namely: Lots three (3) and four (4) of Section twenty-five (25) and the southeast quarter of Section twenty-six (26), and lots one (1), two (2), three (3) and five (5) and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-five (35) ; and lot one (1) of section thirty-six (36), in township sixteen (16) south, range twenty-one (21) east, San Bernardino Base and Meridian, containing 318.51 acres of land, more or less, according to the United States Government survey; and Whereas, the first party has appropriated and is the owner of a large amount of the waters of the Colorado River, and is engaged in the diversion of said waters from said Colorado River upon the lands so owned by party of the first part as aforesaid, and is engaged in the construction of head-works and a canal upon said land, for the purpose of diverting said waters, and is engaged in the construction of an irrigation system, and a system of canals whereby the waters of the Colorado River so diverted upon the said land, of first party as hereinbefore |
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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. |