Reclamation Fund Advances: Hearings ... on H.R. 7754...1919 - 37 pages |
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19 projects acre acreage act of June alfalfa amount of money arid lands BACHARACH bench lands bill Blackfeet Indian Reservation Canal cent complete charge chargeable to 1918 COBURN COLE committee complete projects complete the projects Congress construction cost COWAN Cut Bank DICKINSON Drainage drought dry farming dry-land farm end of fiscal expenditure farmers feasible feed fiscal year 1919 GARNER GIFFORD GILLETTE HADLEY homestead Idaho Interior irrigated lands irrigation project June 17 June 25 June 30 large number live stock LONGWORTH Marias River Milk River project MINNICK MONT NEWMAN North Dakota northern Montana number of projects overhead expense payments pleted practically private capital productive public lands raise reason reclamation fund reclamation law reclamation projects Reclamation Service repaid reservoir RIDDICK Salt River project season of 1917 Secretary semiarid lands settlers started statement Sun River project territory Texas TIMBERLAKE Treasury uncompleted United Valley wheat
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Page 13 - 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 13 - 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...
Page 13 - ... 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...
Page 4 - 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 lauds," and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 14 - ... use such portion of said funds for the benefit of arid or semiarid lands in any particular State or Territory hereinbefore named as he may deem advisable, but when so used the excess shall be restored to the fund as soon as practicable, to the end that ultimately, and in any event within each ten-year period after the passage of this act, the expenditures for the benefit of the said States and Territories shall be equalized according to the proportions and subject to the conditions as to practicability...
Page 4 - Treasury from the reclamation fund, as hereinafter provided: And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended upon any existing project until it shall have been examined and reported upon by a board of engineer officers of the Army, designated by the President of the United States, and until it shall be approved by the President as feasible and practicable and worthy of such expenditure; nor shall any portion of this appropriation be expended upon any new project.
Page 4 - ... receipts of the reclamation fund shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States...
Page 13 - 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 13 - ... 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 13 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said States and Territories...