Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 |
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50 feet 50 second-feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres acres entered subject alfalfa assets and liabilities Belle Fourche Boise Boise River building charge Canal system capacities less Cement Conconully construction contract Creek cubic yards Dikes diversion dam drainage basin elevation of spillway farm units filed Fort Shaw Idaho installments irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 17 June 30 Lake lands opened length of crest length of spillway Less accrued revenues less than 50 main canal maintenance charges March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North North Platte project Number OPENED FOR IRRIGATION operation and maintenance payment Pedro Armendaris grant Principal private ownership public notice pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service Reservoir Riprap season of 1911 Secretary South Canal spillway square miles status of irrigable Storage dams stream bed Sun River Sunnyside surveys Tieton total length tunnel Valley water supply water-right applications wife Yakima
Popular passages
Page 4 - 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 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...
Page 5 - ... derived from such leases shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such power is derived: Provided, that no lease shall be made of such surplus power or power privileges as will impair the efficiency of the irrigation project...
Page 17 - 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...
Page 3 - 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 4 - 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 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 4 - 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 semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 1 - 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 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...