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"'" C'l") O'J w C:.l "G.J. Bureau Office") indicate that the vote on dissolution was o held in an effort by Mesa County District to lessen its charges for carriage of water by the United States. Se,lected copies of the pertinent correspondence in the records of the G.J. Bureau Office have been included in the Appendix to this report. On June 10, 1918, Mesa County District entered into a "Carriage Contract" with the United States whereunder the District agreed to forego pumping of the 40 second feet of water, decreed to it, and have such water delivered and carried by gravity through the diversion works of the Grand Valley Reclamation Project. An annual charge of $4,800 plus $2 per acre for each acre of the District entered under the Reclamation Act was required for the carriage and delivery of water through the project system. A copy of the Carriage Contract is included in the Appendix to this report to facilitate ready reference thereto. The Carriage Contract contained the following provision: 11. After the payment of its obligations -the District, by its landowners as then constituted, if the law then permits, may vote a dissolution of its organization. and the lands embraced within the District shall then be entitled to take and receive water from the works of the United States upon the payment of the same amount for operation and maintenance purposes as other like lands under said project (outside of said District), the landowners joining the water users' association and otherwise complying with the law and rules and regulations applicable to the project. Upon dissolution of the District, however, there shall be conveyed to the United States, or its assigns, the water claimed Gr decreed to the District and its water users, together with all its canals and other irrigation works;... Neither the real estate records of the office of the Recorder -15-