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Show Imperial Valley Plan is Abandoned by U. S. ' EL CENTRO. Calif.. April 15. The contract between the government and the Imperial Laguna Water company, entered into several years ago and authorizing au-thorizing the company to make surveys sur-veys of the east side mesa preparatory to the construction of an all-American canal, has been cancelled by Secretary of the Interior Payne, according to a message received hero by the Imperial Impe-rial ii ligation district fr.om Walter B. Kibbey, its representative In Washington. Washing-ton. The all-American project was popularly popu-larly known as the Mark Rose contract, con-tract, because Rose led in the fight for Its adoption Tho reasons said to have been given by Secretary Payne for cancelling the contracts with the Laguna company were that Rose ha d failed to fulfill Its terms and that tho provisions of soldier sol-dier settlement plans now desired by the public made it unsatisfactory. The contract between tho department depart-ment of the Interior and the Imperial Impe-rial Irrigation district was made later. It provides, as did that with the Laguna La-guna company, for connection at Laguna La-guna dam. no |