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<br />9 18 <br /> <br />I" including their quarry, for instance, and their spur railroad <br /> <br /> <br />track. With respect to those facilities)the Imperial Irrigatio~ <br /> <br /> <br />District has submitted three alternate proposals: <br /> <br /> <br />The first is that the District operate those faciliti.s <br /> <br />- <br />under an agency contract with the United States simj,lar to the <br /> <br /> <br />agency contract under which they propose to operate Imperial <br /> <br />and Laguna Dams and the Canal from the Imperial Dam to the <br /> <br /> <br />Pilot Knob Wasteway. <br /> <br /> <br />The second is that the United States lease those' <br /> <br /> <br />facilities and that the United States operate and maintain the <br /> <br /> <br />facilities under that lease. <br /> <br />And third and finally, the proposal is that the Unite <br />States acquire those facilities outright by purchase and there- <br />after operate and maintain them. <br />Now the letter from the Imperial Irrigation District <br />is lengthy. I am not going to attempt to quote it all because <br />a great deal of it relates to purely preliminary and formal <br />matters, but there are portions of it I want to read to amplify <br />the outline I have just given you. The letter of December 2, <br />1947, from the District to the Secretary of State says in part <br /> <br />as follows: <br /> <br /> <br />"At the outset, we want to make it clear that Imperia <br /> <br /> <br />Irrigation District recognizes the Treaty as the law of the <br /> <br /> <br />land, which should be and will be observed and carried out <br /> <br /> <br />in good faith by both countries, and that this District <br /> <br /> <br />neither desires nor intends by anything said herein to <br /> <br />- <br />suggest or seek a modification of the Treat~ nor to interfer <br />