Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 19U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa amount appropriation for fiscal area farms reported average Boise Boise project Bushel Canal system cent completed Collected to June concrete construction charge contract Creek cubic yards Dakota district court diversion dam drains Earthwork El Paso County entry farm unit feet filed fiscal year 1920 flume Fort Shaw Idaho irrigable acre irrigable area farms Irrigation District irrigation season July June 17 June 30 kilowatts King Hill Klamath Lake Lateral system main canal maintenance charges March miles Milk River Minidoka Miscellaneous Montana Newlands project North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number Okanogan Operation and main operation and maintenance Paso County payment plant project manager public land public notice pumping Reclamation Record Reclamation Service rental Reservoir Schedule season of 1919 seepage Shoshone storage Strawberry Valley Sun River supply in season Tieton tion water supply water users water-rental application water-right application Yakima Yuma
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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 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 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.
Page 460 - ... 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 to be susceptible of irrigation from said works...
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 460 - ... 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 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 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 460 - ... that said surveys shall be prosecuted diligently to completion, and upon the completion thereof, and .of the necessary maps, plans, and estimates of cost, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine whether or not said project is practicable and advisable, and if determined to be impracticable or unadvisable he shall thereupon restore said lands to entry...
Page 462 - 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 459 - 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...