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Show -17- casional trips have been made to the Gulf of California, I am told, by excursionists or prospectors, but always in a very small vessel, and generally with annoying, if not disastrous, delays due to the treachery of the River as a navigable stream. Aside from such occasional attempts to reach the Gulf and Gulf points via the Colorado, there is absolutely no navigation of the River below Yuma at present, unless the use of an ordinary skiff or row-boat may be considered navigation. Above Yuma, there are, besides the St. Vallier, one or two smaller boats plying spasmodically. Notwithstanding all of the above, however, there has been organized a company known as The Mexican-Colorado Navigation Company, with headquarters at 211 Stim-son Building, Los Angeles, California, the purpose of which Company is to install and operate a line of light-draft river boats to navigate the Colorado from Needles, California, to the Gulf of California, there to connect with a line of ocean-going steamers. This Company, through Mr. W. S. Twogood, its General Manager, with whom I talked on the subject, claims that it has been induced to put its money into this enterprise by reason of proposed large investments of capital in mining and other operations near the Colorado River and the Gulf of California, from points in Nevada to Guaymas, Mexico, provided means of transportation by the River are furnished. In fact, the boats I have mentioned above as navigating the Colorado from Yuma North, are owned and operated by this Company, and they propose not only to add other boats for this service, but so to alter their present boats as to make them more suitable for use on the Colorado. In the opinion of said Company, the amount of prospective business on the River is sufficient to justify it in the in- |
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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. |