Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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300 second-feet 50 feet acre of irrigable acre-feet alfalfa annual Boise Boise River building charge Canal and laterals Canal system capacities from 50 capacities less cent Colorado concrete construction contract cost Creek crops cubic yards December ditches Diversion dam Dodson North Canal drainage drainage basin each-Concrete entryman et ux excavation farm units filed fiscal flume heretofore installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 30 Lake lands opened less than 50 main canal March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North Platte North Platte project notices and orders operation and maintenance payment power plant private ownership public notices pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service Reservoir Riprap SAMUEL ADAMS schedule season of 1912 Secretary South Canal spillway square miles status of irrigable Sun River Telephone tion Total building total length tunnel Uncompahgre Valley Valley water supply water users water-right applications Yakima Yuma
Popular passages
Page 200 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 200 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 200 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws...
Page 199 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico. North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming...
Page 201 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory, hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 199 - Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct, as herein provided, irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters. including artesian wells, and to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the...
Page 199 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 201 - Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 199 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the
Page 218 - The limit of area per entry representing the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, may be reasonably required for the support of a family on the lands entered subject to the provisions of the Reclamation Act, is fixed at the amounts shown on the plats for the several farm units.