Chapter 107. To abolish the Papago Saguaro National Monument, Arizona, to provide for the disposition of certain lands therein for park and recreational uses, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 107.— An Act To abolish the Papago Saguaro National Monument, Arizona, to provide for the disposition of certain lands therein for park and recreational uses, and for other purposes. April 7, 1930.[[H. R. 5672](/us/bill/71/hr/5672).][[Public, No. 92](/us/pl/71/92).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Papago Saguaro National Monument, Aria, Abolishment of.Vol. 38, p. 1091. That the Papago Saguaro National Monument in Arizona shall be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and that the Government lands therein described according to the Gila and Salt River base and meridian shall be disposed of as follows: 1.
Arizona National Guard.Area reserved for, as rifle range. The north half northeast quarter section 5; north half north-west quarter section 4, township 1 north, range 4 east, within the boundaries of the said Papago Saguaro National Monument, together with the southeast quarter section 32; and the southwest quarter section 33, township 2 north, range 4 east, of the public lands of the United States shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for military purposes for use of the National Guard of Arizona as a rifle range. 2.
Arizona.Remainder granted to, for park, etc., purposes. All of the remainder of Government lands in the said Papago Saguaro National Monument, in Maricopa County, Arizona, except such parts thereof as are hereinafter authorized to be purchased by the city of Tempe, and except such tracts as the Salt River Valley Exceptions.Water Users’ Association is hereinafter authorized to purchase, shall be, and the same are hereby, granted to the State of Arizona for park, recreation, or public-convenience purposes; and there is hereby granted to the city of Tempe, Arizona, for municipal, Tempe.Area granted to, for municipal purposes.park, recreation, or public-convenience purposes, the south half northeast quarter, north half southeast quarter section 9; all of the southwest quarter; the west half southeast quarter; and the south half north-west quarter section 10, township 1 north, range 4 east, except the lands in the aforesaid sections hereinafter granted to the Salt *Provisos*.Mineral deposits reserved.River Valley Water Users’ Association: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the lands, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary Reversion for non-user by State and Tempe.of the Interior may prescribe: *Provided further*, That the lands hereby granted shall be used by the State of Arizona and the city of Tempe, Arizona, only for the purposes herein indicated, and if the said lands, or any part thereof, shall be abandoned for such use, such lands or such part shall revert to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare 143such a forfeiture of grant and to restore said premises to the public domain if at any time he shall determine that the State or city has abandoned the lands for the uses herein indicated, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive; and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operation of these grants: *Provided, however*, ThatRight of way of Water Users’ Association. the grants herein are made subject to any valid existing claim or easement and particularly subject to the right of way one hundred feet wide on either side of the canal flume and pipe line heretofore constructed by the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association; andPurchase by Water Users’ Association authorized. said association is hereby granted the right to purchase within two years after the approval of this Act, at the rate of $1.25 per acre, approximately eighty-five acres of land east of said right of way in Area described.section 3; not to exceed seven acres of land contiguous to said right of way in section 10, and approximately seven one-hundredths acre in section 9, township 1 north, range 4 east, adjacent to said canal right of way and power-plant property, and said lands to be used by said association for maintenance and operation purposes, the said right of way and contiguous land being particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the north and south center line of the west half of said section 3, one hundred and thirty-one feet south two degrees forty-six minutes west from the mid point of the west half of the north boundary line of said section 3; thence south two degrees forty-six minutes west along the said north and south mid line of the west half of said section 3, identical with the east boundary line of the tract herein described, five thousand two hundred and eight feet to the mid point of the west half of the south boundary line of said section 3; thence west along said south boundary line of said section 3, two hundred and ninety-two and five-tenths feet to a point on the west boundary line of the tract herein described identical with the west boundary line of the right of way of the Arizona Cross-Cut Canal; thence in a general northerly direction along the west boundary line of the tract herein described and the west boundary line of said Arizona Cross-Cut Canal as follows:
North twenty-eight degrees one minute west, two hundred and forty-three and four-tenths feet; thence north forty-six degrees fifty-nine minutes west, three hundred and twenty-one and seven-tenths feet; thence north thirty-three degrees fifty-four minutes west, two hundred and twenty-one and eight-tenths feet; thence north twenty-seven degrees twenty-seven minutes west, two hundred and ninety-four and six-tenths feet; thence north eighteen degrees four minutes west, five hundred and seventy-five and three-tenths feet; thence north six degrees forty-seven minutes east, one hundred and seventy-seven and seven-tenths feet; thence north twenty-four degrees twenty-seven minutes east, two hundred and fifty-two feet; thence north fifty-two degrees twenty-one minutes east, two hundred and eighty-three and five-tenths feet; thence north one degree fifty minutes east, nine hundred and eight and four-tenths feet: thence north nineteen degrees eleven minutes east, nine hundred and twenty-three and nine-tenths feet; thence north twenty-seven degrees fifty-eight minutes east, seven hundred and twenty-five feet; thence north thirty-nine degrees fifty-five minutes east, five hundred and sixty-nine and nine-tenths feet, and thence north fifteen degrees forty-nine minutes east, three hundred and nine and five-tenths feet to the point of beginning, containing eighty-four and sixty-eight one-hundredths acres more or less, inclusive of the portion of said tract also embraced within the right of way of said Arizona Cross-Cut Canal.
Also a right of way one hundred feet wide on each side of a line beginning at a point on the north bound-144ary line of said section 10, distant one thousand one hundred and fifty-six feet east of the northwest corner of said section 10; thence south twenty-five degrees twenty-two minutes east, two hundred and seventy-eight feet; thence south no degrees twenty-five minutes west, two hundred and ten and five-tenths feet; thence south twenty-six degrees twenty-eight minutes west, one thousand one hundred and sixty-seven feet; thence south sixteen degrees nine minutes east, four hundred and thirteen feet; thence south forty-eight degrees fifty-five minutes east, two hundred and seventy feet; thence south six degrees twenty-two minutes east, ninety-nine feet; thence south twenty-two degrees thirty minutes west, four hundred and sixty and five-tenths feet; thence south forty degrees forty-four minutes west, one thousand four hundred and seventy-four and seven-tenths feet, and thence south fifty-seven degrees forty-five minutes west, thirty-eight and eight-tenths feet to a point on the west boundary line of said section 10, distant one thousand one hundred and thirty-two feet, south one degree eighteen minutes west from the west quarter-section comer of said section 10; thence continuing south fifty-seven degrees forty-five minutes west in section 9, five hundred feet to a point one hundred feet distant measured at right angles to said last-mentioned course from the intersection of the west boundary line of said right of way with the east and west middle line of the southeast quarter of said section 9.
The south half southeast quarter southwest quarter northwest quarter and the north half northeast quarter northwest quarter southwest quarter of said section 10, the area of said tract, exclusive of the two hundred feet right of way of said Arizona Cross-Cut Canal hereinbefore described which crosses said tract in a general southwesterly direction, being seven acres. A triangular piece of land being all of the northeast quarter southeast quarter of said section 9, lying southeast of the right of way of said Arizona Cross-Cut Canal hereinbefore described, the said tract measuring sixty-two and five-tenths feet along the east boundary of said section 9 and ninety-five feet along the south boundary of said northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of said section 9, containing seven-hundredths acre more or less.
Approved, April 7, 1930.