Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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acre of irrigable acre-feet Acreage irrigated acres acres of land Alfalfa Arrowrock Dam ASSETS Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Boise River Building charges Canal system Cement concrete construction contract Creek crops cubic yards Distribution system diversion dam division drainage drainage basin excavation farm units feet fiscal Fort Shaw freight Gunnison Tunnel illus Improvements on right installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season July June 30 Lake lands opened liabilities Lowline Canal Main Canal maintenance_ March Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number of farms operation and maintenance prepared to supply public notices pumping purchased reclamation act Reclamation Service Rentals Reservoir schedule season of 1913 Selig Extension Canal South Canal spillway square miles storage Strawberry structures Sun River Sunnyside supply water surveys Total building tunnel Umatilla Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Valley Valley vouchers water supply water users water-right applications Williston Yakima Yuma
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Page 261 - 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 259 - 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 259 - July 2, 1862," the deficiency, if any, in the sum necessary for the support of the said colleges shall be provided for from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations...
Page 261 - 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 259 - That the Secretary of the 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...
Page 259 - 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 261 - 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 260 - 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 37 - That where in carrying out the provisions of this act it becomes necessary to acquire any rights or property, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire the same for the United States by purchase or by condemnation under judicial process, and to pay from the reclamation fund the sums which may be needed for that purpose...