Annual Report of the Reclamation Service, Volume 12, Parts 1912-1913U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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acre of irrigable acre-feet Acreage irrigated acres acres of land Alfalfa ASSETS Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Boise River Building charges Canal system Cement concrete construction contract Creek crops cubic yards Distribution system diversion dam drainage drainage basin entry excavation farm unit feet fiscal Fort Shaw freight Gunnison Tunnel illus Improvements on right installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season July June 30 Lake lands opened liabilities Lowline Canal maintenance_ March Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number of farms operation and maintenance payment public notices pumping Purchases reclamation act Reclamation Service Rentals Reservoir schedule season of 1913 Secretary Shoshone South Canal spillway square miles storage Strawberry structures Sun River Sunnyside Sunnyside Main Canal supply water surveys Tieton River tion Total building tunnel Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Valley Valley vouchers water supply water users water-right applications wife Yakima Yuma
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Page 263 - 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 261 - 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 262 - 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 261 - 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," the deficiency, if any, in the sum.
Page 261 - July , 2, 1862," the deficiency, if any, in the sum necessary for the support of the said colleges shall be provided for from any moneys in the .Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations...
Page 263 - 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 264 - 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 261 - 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 263 - Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 269 - An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes", approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat.