Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 |
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acre of irrigable acre-feet acre-foot acreage acres Alfalfa area farms reported Arizona Arrowrock Dam assets average become due Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Boise River Bushels Carlsbad Colorado concrete construction charge construction of project cost Creek crop cubic yards drainage entry excavation expenditures for construction farm unit feet High Line Canal Idaho illus inches Indian installments irrigable land irrigation season Item July June 17 June 30 Klamath Lake Lateral system liabilities Main Canal maintenance charges March Mary Canal miles Milk River Minidoka Miscellaneous Montana North Dakota North Platte Number Okanogan operation and maintenance payment pounds project to date public notice reclamation extension act Reclamation Service Rentals Reservoir Salt River season of 1915 Secretary Selig Canal system Sept Shoshone South Canal square miles storage Strawberry Valley Sun River Sunnyside unit Tieton unit tion Truckee-Carson Umatilla Uncompahgre Valley Unpaid water users water-right applicants Yakima Yuma
Popular passages
Page 327 - 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 332 - 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 328 - 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 326 - ... shall give public notice of the lands irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question...
Page 326 - 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 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 325 - 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," the deficiency, if any, in the sum.
Page 327 - 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 325 - 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 327 - 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 semi-arid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 327 - 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.