Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 18U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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Accrued to June acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa area farms reported average Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Bushel Canal system Canyon cent completed Collected to June Colorado River concrete construction charge contracts Creek crops Dakota diversion dam division drainage drains Earthwork El Paso County farm units feet fiscal year 1919 flume Fort Laramie Fort Shaw Gross construction cost installed irrigable acre irrigable land irrigation district irrigation season July June 30 King Hill Klamath Lake Laramie unit Lateral system main canal maintenance charges miles Milk River Minidoka Newlands project North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Notus Canal Number operation and maintenance Paso County Plant accounts project manager Public land public notice reclamation fund Reclamation Service rental Reservoir schedule season of 1918 second-feet seepage Shoshone storage Subtotal Sun River supply in season tion Total irrigated Umatilla water supply water users water-right application Yakima Yuma
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Page 466 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page 461 - 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, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof...
Page 461 - ... a failure to make any two payments when 'due shall render the entry subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act, as well as of any moneys already paid thereon.
Page 461 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident of 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 459 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 460 - That upon the determination by the Secretary of the Interior that any irrigation project is practicable, he may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project...
Page 459 - 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 460 - ... withdraw from public entry the lands required for any irrigation works contemplated under the provisions of this act, and shall restore to public entry any of the lands so withdrawn when, in his judgment, such lands are not required for the purposes of this act; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, at or immediately prior to the time of beginning the surveys for any contemplated irrigation works, to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed...
Page 459 - That in case the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands other than those realized from the sale and disposal of lands referred to in this section are insufficient to meet the requirements for the support of agricultural colleges...
Page 462 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.