Water-supply Paper, Volumes 220-225

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908
 

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Page 69 - reclamation fund, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands...
Page 69 - ... public lands which it is proposed to irrigate by means of any contemplated works shall be subject to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws...
Page 69 - ... to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works...
Page 61 - That all lands exclusive of timber lands and mineral lands which will not, without irrigation, produce some agricultural crop, shall be deemed desert lands, within the meaning of this act, which fact shall be ascertained by proof of two or more credible witnesses under oath, whose affidavits shall be filed in the land office in which said tract of land may be situated — SEC.
Page 69 - 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...
Page 28 - Generally 2 to 10 feet a day can be accomplished, but one well is reported to have been sunk 35 feet in a single night. Distribution. — Nearly half the area covered by this report is underlain by slate and schists. The areas are so irregular that they can not be well described, but they are shown on PI.
Page 70 - 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.
Page 30 - Keep your direction true by traveling toward or from some selected landmark, or by the sun during the day or a star at night, or by keeping with or against or in some fixed direction in relation to the wind. If you think these things out and have studied the country beforehand, so that you know the relation of a road, or a ranch, or a spring, or a river to a given landmark or to the points of the compass, you should have no difficulty in finding your way again. With some persons. however, the faculty...
Page 70 - ... 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 69 - ... the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, at or immediately prior to the time of beginning the surveys for any contemplated irrigation...

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