Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 16, Parts 1916-1917U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 |
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1917 appropriation Accrued to end acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa area farms reported Boise Boise project Bushels Canal system cent complete concrete construction charge construction of project contracts with water-right cost of construction Creek cubic yards diversion dam drainage drains end of fiscal excavation farm unit feet fiscal year 1917 flume Fort Shaw Frannie division Gross construction cost inches installments irrigable acre irrigable land irrigation district irrigation season July June 30 Lake Lateral system Less revenues earned liabilities main canal maintenance charges miles Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte project Number operation and maintenance payable Plant accounts project manager Public land public notice pumping reclamation fund Reclamation Record Reclamation Service Rentals of irrigation right applicants Salt River Salt River project schedule season of 1916 Shoshone South Canal spillway square miles storage Sun River tion unclassified Uncompahgre Valley Unpaid Valley water users water-right applicants Willow Creek Reservoir Yuma
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Page 391 - 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 383 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado.
Page 385 - ... 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 383 - 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 385 - 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 384 - That the Secretary of the Interior shall, before giving the public notice provided for in section four of this act, 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...
Page 384 - ... 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 386 - 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 383 - An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lauds 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 394 - SEC. 14. That any person whose land or entry has heretofore become subject to the reclamation law, who desires to secure the benefits of the extension of the period of payments provided by this act, shall, within six months after the issuance of the first public notice hereunder affecting his land or entry, notify the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner to be prescribed by said Secretary, of his acceptance of all...