...water for land in private ownership shall be sold * * * to any landowner, unless he be an actual bonn fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, * * • " 3. The Secretary of the Interior will therefore permit, as a war measure, the...

...reclamation law says that no sale of water rights "shall be made to any land owner unless he shall be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said laud." However, from 2.7 to 29.8 percent of the lands in the districts studied are owned by...

...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...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made. (June...

...any one landowner, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless...land or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land." THE irrigation bill, which has passed both houses of Congress and become a law, creates...

...ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall l>e made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land • • •." (2) Section 2 of the act of February 21, 1911 (36 Stat. 926), which provides....

...* * 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, and no such sale shall...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, * * *." (2) Section 2 of the act of February 21, 1911 (36 Stat. 926), which provides,...

...* * 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, and no such sale shall...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, * * *." (2) Section 2 of the act of February 21, 1911 (36 Stat. 926), which provides,...

...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...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made. It will...

...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...land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made. It will...

...noted here that a private landowner, whose project water right was acquired under the 1902 act, must be an "actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood" of such land. But this residence requirement was omitted from the currently effective 1926 statute...