land owning water rights. These mutual companies are made up of 

 the owners of the land who have purchased water stocks from the 

 California Development Company, which stocks are made appurtenant 

 to the land. Water stocks began selling at $8 with a $1 bond, accepta- 

 ble as future payment of stock, issued for each of the $3 of the first 

 payment, making these stocks actually cost but $f>.75 per acre. The 

 demand for land and stocks was so great that the company- raised the 

 price from time to time until now (January, 1902) stocks are selling 

 for $20 per share, $5 cash, and the balance to be paid in live .yearly 

 installments. For the price paid for stocks the California Develop- 

 ment Company builds all canals which are to be given to the mutual 

 companies when they assume control in the different districts. An 

 assessment will be made by these mutual companies for running 

 expenses, which must be paid by the farmer in addition to the 50 cents 

 per acre-foot for water. 



THE SYSTEM AS PLANNED. 



The heading of the canal is 7i miles below Yuma, on the California 

 side of the river. The water will be carried from this point in a large 

 canal, or several smaller parallel ones, 8 miles to the channel of the 

 Salton River, where the natural channel is used to carry the water 

 about 60 miles westward, running through a tract of 100,000 acres in 

 Mexico, owned by the California Development Company, to the area 

 to be irrigated in the United States. It will be taken out of the Salton 

 a little way below the international boundary line and carried into the 

 United States in a large 60-foot-bottom canal, with a capacity of 

 25,000 inches, or 5,000 second-feet. This canal is to irrigate that part 

 of the delta included between Salton and New rivers. After entering 

 the United States for a short distance, this large canal is to be changed 

 into two 30-foot canals, side by side; the object being to use one while 

 the other is being cleaned. The other canals are planned to leave the 

 Salton at various points to irrigate lands in Mexico and on the east 

 side of Salton River and west side of New River in the United States. 



PRESENT DEVELOPMENT. 



Water was first brought to the area in June, 1901, in a small ditch 

 along the route of the proposed larger one. This water is used for 

 domestic purposes water of stock and irrigating a small amount of 

 land. The greater part of the main canal to the point where the 30- 

 foot canals commence is finished. From this point one of the 30-foot 

 canals is for the most part finished to Imperial, and many of the 

 laterals are constructed. The permanent heading at the Salton River, 

 7 miles southeast of Calexico, consisting of combined heading and 8- 

 f oot drop, has been built, but bej-ond this there are no gates or checks 



