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Show -43- ville, the military post of Camp Mojave, and the little mining camp at El Dorado Canon." Aubrey and Hardy-ville, are each small adobe buildings, occupied as stores at which supplies are landed for a few mining camps in the interior, of which the most important are Signal, Hackberry and Mineral Park." "The mine at El Dorado is said to be a good one but the company is supposed to be in financial difficulty, and its abandonment in the near future is, to say the least, not impossible. As soon as the railway crossed at Yuma, the best part of the river business was stopped at once; the steamers passed into the hands of the railway company; the old establishment at the mouth of the river was abandoned and all trips from thence to Yuma discontinued. "During the past winter the Southern Pacific road has been rapidly pushed into Arizona, and, then operations are discontinued for the hot weather of the coming summer, its terminus is expected to be at Maricopa Wells, 190 miles east from Yuma. When this happens, freight for Prescott and its tributary districts will no longer go by boat to Ehrenberg, but by rail to Maricopa Wells; and with this change disappears at once not only the greater portion of the remaining need for river transportation, but also the chief reason for the existence of the town of Ehrenberg itself. We are, therefore, confronted with the fact that our estimates of the necessity for increased communication facilities by the river must be based on the needs of the country above Ehrenberg, dependent on it for supply. It is, of course, not improbable that new mines may be discovered in the very imperfectly known country |
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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. |