Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 17, Parts 1917-1918U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 |
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1918 appropriation 32 Stat Accrued to end acre-feet acre-foot Acreage service acres Alfalfa annual 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 Plant accounts 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 Truckee-Carson Umatilla Uncollected at end water users water-rental water-right application Yakima Yuma
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Page 438 - 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 433 - 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 445 - ... 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 433 - 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 431 - 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 441 - 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 431 - ... 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...
Page 431 - 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 - ... 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 440 - The court thereupon may stay such proceedings or such sale, as provided in this Act, for a period extending not more than six months after the termination of the period of military service of such person.