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Show -18- State for this work and no other; that they shall be disposed of as the work progresses, and if not completed within a limited time, to be fixed, the lands unsold to revert to the United States. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Jos. S. Wilson. Moses Kelly, Esq., Acting Secretary of the Interior. Appendix C. Extracts from Lieutenant Bergland's survey, under the direction of Lieutenant Wheeler, by order of the War Department: In order that the canal should be entirely within the California boundary, it must cross the divide to the north of Pilot Knob. This, as has already been shown, would necessitate a long, deep cutting, partly through rock and a passage through the sand ridge. This passage could only be effected by means of a flume or tunnel to protect it from filling up with sand. A canal from some point below the boundary would be more practicable and less expensive in construction and maintenance. * * * One of the branches of New River leaves the Colorado near Algodon Station, and this artificial channel might be utilized in the construction of a canal for diverting the water of the river into the depressed area to the northwest. * * * The amount of cutting required is difficult to estimate without further surveys, but it would doubtless be moderate, as the water flows into this area from the river when it overflows its banks. * * * Mr. Hanlon, owner of the ferry at Hanlon's ferry, nine miles below Fort Yuma, says the channel of the Colorado opposite to Pilot Knob is about three-fourths of a mile east of where it was at the time of Mr. Wozencraft's examination. |
