Information for Quechans and Cocopahs: 77. YUMA (FORT YUMA) MILITARY AND INDIAN RESERVATIONS. 70 items. A map, dated 1869, of the military reservation at Fort Yuma. Maps showing reserve asked for by Indians, original land offered to them for a reserva tion, and later Yuma Indian Reservation. Plats show ing the subdivision of the Yuma Indian Reservation into sections as surveyed in 189 5. Maps showing property in T. 16 S., R. 21 E., San Bernardino meridian, claimed by the California Development Co. and boundaries of the Hanlon Tract according to deed description as compared with the 1857 survey. A townsite plat, approved in 1909, of Powell, Calif. A diagram and plan of the Fort Yuma School. Right-of way maps, some of which were approved 1902-30, of a railroad (including maps of station grounds), tele phone and telegraph lines, and highways across the reservation. Maps pertaining to irrigation, including a plat showing a proposed irrigation scheme; maps of proposed and constructed canals, drainage ditches, and levees; and general Reclamation Service maps of the Yuma project. Right-of-way maps of canals and electric transmission lines, some of which show allotments. A map, dated December 30, 1940, show ing ceded lands proposed for restoration to the Yuma Indian Reservation and changes in the Colorado River channel.
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