Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres amount of water ANNUAL REPORT RECLAMATION April Arizona August Beaver bed rock Big Valley Boise Boise River Bulls Head canyon capacity cent Cimarron Cimarron River Colorado River construction contour cost County cubic yards depth discharge ditch diversion drainage area drainage basin east elevation engineer estimated feasible February feet high flood flow gage grade Grand River Gunnison River height Honey Lake inches investigation irrigable lands irrigation January July June Klamath Klamath River lignite lower Mesa mountains North Fork north side Orchard Mesa Payette Plateau Creek Platte River portion probably proposed RECLAMATION SERVICE PL reconnaissance REPORT RECLAMATION SERVICE reservoir sites River Valley run-off Salt River season second-feet silt slope South Platte South Platte River south side square miles station storage stream surface Susan Creek tion Total tributaries tunnel U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Uncompahgre Valley Utah water supply Willow Creek Yuma
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Page 35 - Provided: That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 26 - 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 25 - 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 27 - 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 25 - That the entryman upon lands to be irrigated by such works shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes...
Page 24 - 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 an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 34 - ... then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 24 - 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 semiarid lands in the said States and Territories...
Page 25 - ... sixty acres, and shall be subject to the limitations, charges, terms, and conditions herein provided: Provided, That the commutation provisions of the homestead laws shall not apply to entries made under this act.
Page 25 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to use the reclamation fund for the operation and maintenance of all reservoirs and irrigation works constructed under the provisions of this act: Provided, That when the payments required by this act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters...