Show I I I I I GOVERNMENT T Tf I WINS INS S 'S LAGUNA LAGUIA PROJECT COST CONTENTION TEl R RULING G Tucson Ariz Aris Feb J The Tho 9 Tho federal government wn Wat awarded the decision on all contested points in iii the Yuma water case cace in federal court here this morning h by Judge Sawtell The suit was brought by lan landholders holders In the I-i- I gun una dam dani project to enforce the rate of payment nt at nt 10 10 i per pcr acre Im instead tead of or 75 per acro acre which the government claimed to bo ho tho the actual cost of oC the project The Time original estimate of 10 iO was made b by tho the government go in 1901 I and It was vas not until 1917 that the government o on of the increased Increase cost of or material under the tho cost contract with the landholders ers assessed the tho 75 figure J rc Suit was ao as brought In May fa 1919 by a group roup of or settlers to compel tho the government gov go 0 to adhere to the orl original esti est mate m. Jud Judge o Sawtell held that the tIme ULI of oC the word cost in the time contract was controlling five Eighty thousand acres or of land laud was WILS affected |