Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 19, Parts 1919-1921U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa amount area farms reported average Boise Boise project Bushel Canal system cent completed concrete construction charge contracts cost and revenue Creek cubic yards Dakota diversion dam Division drains El Paso County entry excavation farm unit feet filed fiscal year 1920 flume Fort Shaw Gross cost irrigable acre irrigable area farms irrigable land Irrigation District irrigation plan irrigation season July June 30 kilowatts King Hill Klamath Lake Lateral system Less revenues Main Canal mainte maintenance charges March miles Milk River Minidoka Miscellaneous nance Newlands project North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number Okanogan Operation and main operation and maintenance payment project manager public land public notice reclamation fund Reclamation Service Rentals Reservoir season of 1920 second-feet seepage square miles storage Strawberry Valley Sun River supply in season surveys Tieton tion Total irrigated water delivered water supply water users water-right application Yakima Yuma
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Page 469 - 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 467 - 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 469 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner...
Page 468 - ... 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 470 - 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 467 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo...
Page 470 - 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 468 - 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...
Page 468 - Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question ; also 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 10, in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence.
Page 486 - An Act to create a Federal Power Commission ; to provide for the improvement of navigation ; the development of water power ; the use of the public lands in relation thereto ; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.