Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 |
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1918 appropriation 32 Stat Accrued to end acre-feet acre-foot Acreage service acres Alfalfa area farms reported Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Bushel Canal system Collected to end Conconully concrete construction charge Creek cubic yards Dakota diversion dam division drain end of fiscal entry Estimated acreage excavation farm unit feet filed fiscal year 1918 flume Fort Laramie Fort Shaw installments irrigable acre irrigable land irrigation district irrigation season joint construction vouchers July June 17 June 30 Lake Laramie Canal Lateral system main canal miles Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number operation and maintenance payable Poplar River project manager public lands public notice pumping reclamation fund Reclamation Service rental Reservoir revenue earnings schedule season of 1917 seepage Shoshone square miles storage Strawberry Valley Sun River Tieton tion Total irrigated Truckee-Carson Umatilla Uncollected at end Uncompahgre Valley water users water-rental water-right application Yakima Yuma
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Page 431 - 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 431 - 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 429 - 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 432 - 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 429 - 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 439 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 438 - Act, for a period extending not more than six months after the termination of the war. (3) When by law such property may be sold or forfeited to enforce the collection of such tax or assessment, such person in military service shall have the right to redeem or commence an action to redeem such property, at any time not later than six months after the termination of...
Page 440 - Interior; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works...
Page 432 - 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 434 - ... maintenance and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such arrears. In the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior suit or action may be brought for the amounts in default and penalties in like manner as provided in section three of this act.