United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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300 second-feet 50 feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres alfalfa annual Arrowrock Boise River building charge Canal system capacities from 50 capacities less Colorado construction contract Creek crops cubic yards Dikes distribution system ditches Diversion dams Dodson South Canal drainage drainage basin each-Concrete earth et ux farm units filed fiscal flume Fort Shaw installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 30 Lake lands opened Lateral system length of crest less than 50 main canal March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River North Platte North Platte project OPENED FOR IRRIGATION operation and maintenance payment power plant private ownership public notices pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service rental Reservoir Riprap rock schedule season of 1912 spillway square miles status of irrigable Storage dams stream bed Sun River surveys tion Total building total length Tunnels Valley water supply water users water-right applications Yuma
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Page 200 - 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 199 - That the Secretary of the Interior shall, before giving the public notice provided for in section four of this act, 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irrigation works contemplated under the provisions of this act, and shall restore to public entry any of the lands so withdrawn when, in his judgment, such lands are not required for the purposes of this act...
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 201 - 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 199 - 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 lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the...
Page 202 - That from and after the passage of this act unreserved public lands of the United States exclusive of Alaska which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands, or are valuable for coal, shall be subject to appropriate entry under the homestead laws...
Page 200 - 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.
Page 199 - ... 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 to be susceptible of irrigation...
Page 200 - Interior under this act to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.