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Show -7- Finding No. 8. That thereafter and on the same day, towit, on the 5th. day of December, 1932, the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Imperial Irrigation District, agreeable to the resolution of said Board last above found, did submit said proposal to enter into contract with the United States as embodied in said proposed contract, together with such plans and estimates of cost as had been made in connection therewith, to wit, the engineering report of H. J. Gault, in evidence as Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 4 to the State Engineer of the State of California, for his examination and report. Finding No. 9. That thereafter the State Engineer of the State of California, did make an examination of said proposal as embodied in said proposed contract and of the plans and estimates of cost as had been made in connection therewith and thereafter and on towit, the 14th. day of December, 1932, the said State Engineer did make his report thereon as provided by law in writing to the Board of Directors of Imperial Irrigation District and in said report approved said proposal as embodied in said proposed contract and the plans and estimates of cost as had been made in connection therewith and among other things found and declared that the water supply is ample, that the project is physically feasible, and can be constructed within the estimated cost, the land is susceptible of irrigation, the cost will be justified by the benefits, and that the project as a whole is financially and economically sound and thereafter and on the 19th. day of December, 1932, filed said report and approval with the Secretary of the Board of Directors of Imperial Irrigation District. |
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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. |