Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 11, Part 1912U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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300 second-feet 50 feet acre of irrigable acre-feet alfalfa annual Boise Boise River building charge Canal and laterals Canal system capacities from 50 capacities less cent Colorado concrete construction contract cost Creek crops cubic yards December ditches Diversion dam Dodson North Canal drainage drainage basin each-Concrete entryman et ux excavation farm units filed fiscal flume heretofore installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 30 Lake lands opened less than 50 main canal March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North Platte North Platte project notices and orders operation and maintenance payment power plant private ownership public notices pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service Reservoir Riprap SAMUEL ADAMS schedule season of 1912 Secretary South Canal spillway square miles Sun River Telephone tion Total building total length tunnel Uncompahgre Valley Valley water supply water users water-right applications West Canal Yakima Yuma
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Page 201 - 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 200 - ... 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 200 - ... 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 199 - 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, 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...
Page 199 - 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 199 - 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 199 - ... 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
Page 201 - ... 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, 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 199 - ... withdraw from public entry the lands required for any irrigation works contemplated under the provisions of this act and shall restore to public entry any of the lands so withdrawn when, in his judgment, such lands are not required for the purposes of this act; 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...
Page 199 - That all lands entered and entries made under the homestead laws within areas so withdrawn during such withdrawal shall be subject to all the provisions, limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of this act; 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...