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Show THE WESTERN WEB 121 "From the main stream and the Gila River 1,408,000 acre-feet, of which there is left, when deducted from the 3,670,000 acre-feet usable only in Arizona, 2,252,000 acre-feet in the main stream from our apportionment. The Central Arizona Project will consumptively use 1,077,000 acre-feet. The Gila Bill, which was authorized last year, will make an additional draft on the river of 566,000 acre-feet, which leaves yet in the main stream of Arizona water, apportioned to Arizona, 619,000 acre- feet for future uses and to take care of our share of evaporation losses." Carson brought into the debate the question of the East and West Mesas of the Imperial Valley.140 When the All American Canal had been built, water was pro- vided for the irrigation of the East and West Mesas, containing public lands, but the Bureau of Reclamation had been successful in preventing these areas from being opened to settlement on the contention that they were not suitable for irrigation. The real reason was that the Bureau did not wish to see the Imperial Irrigation Dis- trict expand. The district, notably its president, Evan T. Hewes, had opposed the Bureau's proposed new policies. Also, the Bureau was fearful of losing control of the entire All American Canal Project. Under the terms of the federal contracts, the canal was to be turned over to the district for operation upon its completion. As previously shown, the Bureau wanted perpetual con- trol of all western projects. In the case of the All Ameri- can Canal, to avoid losing control of it the Bureau simply refused to assert that it had been completed. It was Carson's thesis that if California would make up its mind to "leave out of irrigation the East Mesa and West Mesa . . . they could supply every irri- |