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Show To secure the fullest presentation of their several claims from those interested, respectively, in navigation and irrigation, it was necessary for me to go to Los Angeles, where I met, and conversed with, officers of The California Development Company and The Mexican-Colorado Navigation Company. Diversion of Waters for Irrigation purposes. I found several irrigation projects in course of development in the southwestern part of Arizona and the southern part of California, chief among which are those of The California Development Company, The Irrigation, Land and Improvement Company, and The Yuma Valley Land and Water Company. All of these enterprises depend upon the Colorado River as the source of their irrigation supply. By far the most extensive of these projects if that of The California Development Company, which is known also as the "Imperial System." This Company was incorporated about six years ago for the purpose of taking water from the Colorado River, conveying it through Lower California (Mexico) and back again into the United States, and irrigating 300,000 acres of land in Lower California, and over 500,000 acres in the United States, the land to be irrigated to the depth of three or four feet each year. The Company commenced work in the Spring of 1900, and, at the time of my investigation, had in operation a canal which carried water a distance of about sixty or sixty-five miles West and North from the Colorado, whence it is conveyed by over two hundred miles of distributing laterals and ditches, ranging from ten to seventy feet wide at the bottom and widening toward the top, through certain lands in southern |
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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. |