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Show -3- Preliminary Examination of Colorado River, Arizona and California, From Yuma to the Mexican Boundary Line. United States Engineer Office, Los Angeles, Col., January 22, 1903. General: I have the honor to submit the following report on the preliminary examination of the Colorado River from Yuma to the Mexican boundary line. Several explorations of portions of the Colorado River have been made, of which those by Lieut. J. C. Ives, of the Topographical Engineers, in 1856 and 1857; by Maj. J. W. Powell, of the United States Geological Survey, from 1869 to 1872, and by Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, in 1875 (for latter see Report of Chief of Engineers, 1876, Part III, pp. 329-345), are well known. A number of examinations of portions of the river above Yuma have been made by officers of the Corps of Engineers with a view to their improvement. The reports of these officers have generally been unfavorable, and, with the exception of the expenditure of $25,000, appropriated July 5, 1884, for the reach between Mojave and El Dorado Canyon, and $10,000 appropriated July 13, 1892, for the construction of a levee along the Gila River near its junction with the Colorado River, so as to confine the waters to the channels of said river, no improvements for navigation purposes have been made by the General Government. Lieut. Col. C. E. L. B. Davis, Corps of Engineers, submitted a report September 7, 1896, on the whole river, which was also unfavorable. An exhaustive report on the lower portion of the river was made in 1851 by Lieut. Geo. H. Derby, of the Topographical Engineers, who had been sent to examine and survey a route for the transportation |
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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. |