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Show -29- Report of Navigability of the Colorado River. El Paso, Texas, July 10, 1902. General Anson Mills, Commissioner, International Boundary Commission, No. 2 Dupont Circle, Washington, D. C. Dear General: In the matter of a protest said to have been made against the diversion for irrigation purposes of water from the Colorado River on its California bank some seven miles below Yuma, Arizona, and just above the international boundary line between the United States and Mexico, on the ground that such diversion would impair the navigability of the river, and the request from the United States Department of Justice for an opinion "as to the navigability of the stream and as to the contention of the Imperial Land System officials that their diversion of the water will have no injurious effect upon the navigation," I have the honor of submitting the following report: In accordance with the instructions contained in your letter of June 24th, I left here, in company with Mr. Zayas, Assistant Engineer of the Mexican Section of our Commission, on the morning of July 3rd, arriving in Yuma July 4th. By previous arrangement, Mr. C. R. Rockwood, Superintendent and Chief Engineer of the California Development Company, the promoters of the various organizations referred to by the Attorney General as the Imperial Land System, met us there, and, by his being with us enabled us to prosecute our investigation without exciting comment. |
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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. |