Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 8, Part 1909U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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50 second-feet Accounts payable acre of irrigable acre-feet AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS Irrigable alfalfa annual report assets and liabilities Average annual rainfall Average elevation building charge canal system capacities less Cement Collection vouchers Colorado River concrete CONDITIONS Irrigable area construction Creek cubic yards December Disbursement vouchers diversion dam drainage basin due and payable elevation of irrigable excavation farm units feet above sea Fort Shaw irrigation season June 30 land office Less accrued revenues liabilities on June main canal maintenance charges maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North Platte project operation and maintenance Ownership of irrigable payment plats Portland Cement pumping Railroad rainfall on irrigable reclamation act Reclamation Service reservoir sea level season of 1909 soil of irrigable spillway square miles storage dam stream bed Sun River temperature on irrigable Transfer vouchers issued Transfer vouchers received tunnel Unadjusted transfers Unpaid passenger fares Valley water-right application Willamette meridian Yakima
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Page 2 - ... 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 2 - 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 lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the...
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 1 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the "reclamation fund...
Page 2 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to use the reclamation fund for the operation and maintenance of all reservoirs and irrigation works constructed under the provisions of this act: Provided, That when the payments required by this act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters...
Page 2 - Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments, not exceeding ten, in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence. The said charges shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the...
Page 3 - An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public land 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 3 - 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 5 - 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 2 - ... 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...