Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - Reclamation of land |
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according to purpose acre-feet acres Amount ANNUAL REPORT PL approved Arizona Belle Fourche Boise River building Canyon capacity Carson cent Class completed concrete construction contractors cost County cubic yards Distributing system ditches diversion dam division drainage elevation embankment Engineering estimates excavation expenditures FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT following table Fork gates gravel Gunnison tunnel headworks Huntley project Idaho inches Indian Creek Interior Interstate canal irrigable lands irrigation July June 30 Klamath located Lower Yellowstone Madison River Main canal ment miles Milk River MINIDOKA DAM Minidoka project Nonirrigable North Platte project Pathfinder dam Payette-Boise project Portland Cement project to June proposed public lands pumping purpose and nature railroad reclamation Act reclamation fund Riprap River project rock Salt River second-feet Shoshone Shoshone project slope South canal spillway station storage structures supply surveys tion Total Truckee-Carson U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE Uncompahgre Valley Unit price water rights Yellowstone River Yuma project
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Page 17 - 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 16 - 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 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 17 - 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 16 - ... 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 15 - 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 17 - 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 17 - 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 16 - That upon the determination by the Secretary of the Interior that any irrigation project is practicable, he may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project...
Page 13 - 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...
Page 15 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico...