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Show for the navigation of the upper portion of the river being the supply of wood to the El Dorado Mill. There seems no reason why this business could not perfectly well be done during high-water, in the future as heretofore, and I am therefore decidedly of the opinion that the interests now involved are very far from warranting the expenditure of so much money, not really to enable the transportation company to accomodate them but merely to render it more convenient to do so. In a country whose only possible future lies in the discovery of mineral wealth, such discovery should precede and create the demand for increased communication facilities, its case being widely different from that of an agricultural district, where the construction of proper means of communication may, in itself, make practicable and hasten the development of its resources. Extracts from Annual Report of Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, Part 3, 1886. Commercial Statistics. The following statistics, showing the entire business on the Colorado River for the year ending June 30, 1886, are furnished by the Southern Pacific Company- Number of passengers transported, 130 Freight transported, tons, 4,695^2 About November 1st, Mr. W. D. Smith was assigned by the United States Geological Survey to the Yuma Gauging Station on the Colorado River. His duties are to gauge the Colorado River, the diversion by the Imperial Canal, determination of silt in the water, make observations on evaporation, and also to note the tonnage passing up and down the river. I have received the following memorandum from Mr. Smith:- |
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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. |