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TESTIMONY OF MR. TAYLOR. February j, 1920
I will testify in the first place, generally, that I know of
my own knowledge that each and all of the statements contained in
the petition are correct, and especially with respect to the ds-
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three separate properties,- one containing about 25 acres, the
other, about 34 acres, and the third, about 39 acres, I believe.
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Each and all of those tracts are fronting directly upon the
ocean, and are on the extreme outer limits of the district, as
appears from the maps on file.
And the statements in the petition with respect to the water
wells having been developed upon the properties, as stated, are
correct. And these water wells were developed and completed ani
subject to immediate use long prior to the time that the proceed-
ings to In the lands within the district were begun, and that
all of the lands, as. described, are subject to be irrigated from
those separate water systems, and all of them have begun to be
irrigated from those systems and had prior to the time that the
lands were included.
I will also say that a large portion of each of those tracts
is in no way subject to irrigation, because of the fact that along
the ocean front they are either too steep for irrigation or there
are sand dunes or sand stones so close to the surface that irri-
1 gation would be impracticable. what portions of the lands are
susceptible of irrigation would not be bensfitted by irrigation
because of the fact that they are comparitively shallow and are
best adapted to raising beans and grain.. And, further, all of
these tracts were set apart for sub-division purposes and not for
agriculture, prior to the time they were included, one tract
having been already platted into small lots and others set apart
for that purpose , and not to be used as agricultural land.
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I will also testify that there are three lots in the plat
of' Sea Bluff, which are not owned by the petitioner; but are
adjacent to the lands of petitioner and are apart of the sub-
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owners of the three lots shall sign, because they are adjacent
to the otherAlande and can be included in the petition signed
by apart of the owners, as has been done in this case.
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