Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Reclamation of land |
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50 second-feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres acres of land assets and liabilities begun Boise River building cost canal system Carson River Cement Colorado River construction contract cubic yards dike distribution system diversion dam division drainage basin embankment engineer excavation farm units feet wide fiscal agent force account Fort Shaw gates Gunnison tunnel headworks Idaho inches Indian installed irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season July June 30 laterals located main canal March maximum height miles with capacities Milk River Minidoka North Platte North Platte River operation and maintenance Pathfinder Proposals public notice pumping Railroad reclamation act reclamation fund Reclamation Service reenforced concrete reservoir rock Salt River season of 1910 Secretary sluiceway south canal specifications spillway square miles station structures Sun River surveys tion Total building tunnel Uncollected Uncompahgre River Unpaid Valley water supply water users water-right applications wife Yellowstone Yellowstone River Yuma
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Page 3 - 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 3 - 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 Ixma 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 2 - ... limit of area per entry, which limit 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 2 - That the Secretary of the 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...
Page 4 - Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof...
Page 1 - 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 4 - 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 2 - Act; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, at or immediately prior to the time of beginning the surveys for any contemplated irrigation works, to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works...
Page 1 - ... 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 2 - 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...