The Parker post., 1912-12-07

a place known as Head Gate Rock,
near Parker Yuma County, Arizona.
That the state of Arizona, or any per-
son, company, association or corpora
ton who shall be the successful bid
der and contractor with the Land
Board of the State of Arizona, for
the construction and maintenance of
said dam, is hereby authorized to
construct, maintain, and opera\e a
diversion dam in and across the Colo
RADIO River at or near a place known
as Head Gate Rock, near Parker,
Yuma County, Arizona, under the
terms and subject to the conditions
contained in the above described Act
of Congress approved March third,
nineteen hundred and eleven; Pro-
vided, the State of Arizona, or any
person, company, association or cor
poration who shall he the successful
bidder and contractor for the con-
structiOn, maintenance and opera
ton of said diversion dam, shall pay
unto the GreeleyArizona Irrigation
Company such sum of money as they
sarily expended upon said project up
to and inclusive of the time the
money is actually paid unto them,
which payment shall be made to
said Company before any work shall
be begun upon said dam. That the
amount of such expenditure shall be
ascertained and decided by the Sec
retary of the Interior.
Provided further, that upon the
payment of such sum of money as the
Secretary of the Interior may de-
termine is due said Greeley-Arizona
Irrigation Company under and by
virtue of the provisions of this Sec
ton, that said Greeley-Arizona Ir-
rigation Company shall transfer con-
vey, set over and assign to the State
of Arizona, or any person, company,
association or corporation, who shall
be the successful bidder and con-
tractor with the Land Board of the
State of Arizona for the construction
and maintenance Of said dam, all
rights to water in the Colorado Ri
yer, and all maps, plats, plans, sur
veys, rights of way, or any other
property or properties, tangible or
intangible, which said company may
own or possess in said project at
the time of said payment, execut-
ing to the said State of Arizona, or
the said person, company associa-
ton or corporation, who shall be
the successful bidder and contractor,
as aforesaid, and good and sufficient
title to all of said aforesaid rights,
titles and interests of said water,
maps, plats, plans, surveys and prop
erty tangible or intangible, belong
ing to the said Greeley-Arizona r.
rigation Company in connection with
said project"
The State Land Board further re-
commended the adoption of the fol-
lowing amendment to Section 4:
Section A. That sections two,
sixteen, thirty-two and thirty-six of
the land in each township within the
Colorado River Reservation shall
not be subject to entry, but shall be
reserved for the use of the common
schools and paid for by the United
States at the rate of ten dollars per
acre, and said section two, sixteen,
thirty-two and thirty-six are here
by granted to the State of Arizona
for such purpose, and in case such
sections or parts thereof are lost to
said State by reason of allotment
thereof to any Indian or Indians or
otherwise, the Governor OF said State,
with the approval of the Secretary
of the Interior, is hereby authorized
to locate other lands within such re-
servation not otherwise appropriated,
not exceeding, however, four sections
in any one township, which shall
be paid for by the United States as
herein provided, in quantity equal to
the loss, and such selection shall be
made prior to the opening of such
lands to settlement"