Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 |
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... season and from shutting off water for the nonpayment of any excess charge . March 28 the case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction . On March 31 , 1911 , similar action was commenced by the same plaintiff against the same defendants ...
... season and from shutting off water for the nonpayment of any excess charge . March 28 the case was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction . On March 31 , 1911 , similar action was commenced by the same plaintiff against the same defendants ...
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... seasons of 1906 and 1907 , and on the same date the same company filed a petition in the same court claiming $ 100,000 as damages for the refusal of the Government to acknowledge their intention to and willingness to deliver 500 second ...
... seasons of 1906 and 1907 , and on the same date the same company filed a petition in the same court claiming $ 100,000 as damages for the refusal of the Government to acknowledge their intention to and willingness to deliver 500 second ...
Page 65
... season of 1911 : 170,000 acres . Area irrigated , season of 1911 : 150,661 acres . Length of the two irrigating seasons : 365 days - summer , June 1 to September 30 ; winter , October 1 to May 31 . Character of soil of irrigable area ...
... season of 1911 : 170,000 acres . Area irrigated , season of 1911 : 150,661 acres . Length of the two irrigating seasons : 365 days - summer , June 1 to September 30 ; winter , October 1 to May 31 . Character of soil of irrigable area ...
Page 67
... season of 1910 included the Roosevelt Reservior , all of the present canal systems on the north side of the river , and the South , Mesa , Eastern , and Consolidated Canals , and the Eureka Ditch on the south side of the river . Water ...
... season of 1910 included the Roosevelt Reservior , all of the present canal systems on the north side of the river , and the South , Mesa , Eastern , and Consolidated Canals , and the Eureka Ditch on the south side of the river . Water ...
Page 68
... season 150,661 acres are being irrigated , an increase over the previous year of 18,915 acres . Of this total about 30,000 acres are served by canals not belonging to the Reclamation Service . To accomplish the irrigation of this amount ...
... season 150,661 acres are being irrigated , an increase over the previous year of 18,915 acres . Of this total about 30,000 acres are served by canals not belonging to the Reclamation Service . To accomplish the irrigation of this amount ...
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50 feet 50 second-feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres acres entered subject alfalfa assets and liabilities Belle Fourche Boise Boise River building charge Canal system capacities less Cement Conconully construction contract Creek cubic yards Dikes distribution system diversion dam drainage basin elevation of spillway farm units filed Fort Shaw Idaho installments irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 17 June 30 Lake lands opened length of crest Less accrued revenues less than 50 main canal maintenance charges March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North North Platte project Number OPENED FOR IRRIGATION operation and maintenance payment Pedro Armendaris grant Principal private ownership Prosser division public notice pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service Reservoir Riprap season of 1911 Secretary South Canal spillway square miles status of irrigable Storage dams stream bed Sun River Sunnyside surveys Tieton total length tunnel Valley water supply water-right applications wife Yakima
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Page 4 - 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 4 - 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 3 - ... 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 17 - That where in carrying out the provisions of this act it becomes necessary to acquire any rights or property, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire the same for the United States by purchase or by condemnation under judicial process, and to pay from the reclamation fund the sums which may be needed for that purpose...
Page 5 - ... derived from such leases shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such power is derived: Provided, that no lease shall be made of such surplus power or power privileges as will impair the efficiency of the irrigation project...
Page 2 - That the Secretary of the 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...
Page 3 - 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 4 - 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 1 - 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 137 - ... beneficial use to each. It is further agreed that in the division of such waters during the irrigation season, between the 1st of April and 31st of October, inclusive, annually, the United States is entitled to a prior appropriation of 500 cubic feet per second of the waters of the Milk River, or so much of such amount as constitutes three- fourths of its natural flow...