California's Irrigation System: Clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle1870 - Irrigation - 116 pages |
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... issued . In some cases these securities have been used in payment for water rights and irri- gation works already constructed , but in the majority of instances it was expected to sell the bonds and devote the proceeds to the ...
... issued . In some cases these securities have been used in payment for water rights and irri- gation works already constructed , but in the majority of instances it was expected to sell the bonds and devote the proceeds to the ...
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... issued by R. J. Hinton , special agent in charge of the irrigation investigation , contains a complete epitome of the present status of irrigation in this State , and it will be lib- erally quoted from . The information is of the most ...
... issued by R. J. Hinton , special agent in charge of the irrigation investigation , contains a complete epitome of the present status of irrigation in this State , and it will be lib- erally quoted from . The information is of the most ...
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... issued and trans- under cultivation . This area can be read- ferred in payment for the same . The ily increased to 25,000 acres . It is esti- works have been constructed and the mated that in all 50,000 acres are now water is now being ...
... issued and trans- under cultivation . This area can be read- ferred in payment for the same . The ily increased to 25,000 acres . It is esti- works have been constructed and the mated that in all 50,000 acres are now water is now being ...
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... issued . Stony Creek is the proposed tober , 1890 , and bonds to the amount of source of supply for this district . $ 500,000 were issued and exchanged for water rights and pipe lines . The supply of water is derived from Lytle creek ...
... issued . Stony Creek is the proposed tober , 1890 , and bonds to the amount of source of supply for this district . $ 500,000 were issued and exchanged for water rights and pipe lines . The supply of water is derived from Lytle creek ...
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... Issued . Several years ago it became apparent that some definite legislation upon the subject of irrigation was a necessity in order that the development of the State might not receive a setback . So much lit- igation had taken place in ...
... Issued . Several years ago it became apparent that some definite legislation upon the subject of irrigation was a necessity in order that the development of the State might not receive a setback . So much lit- igation had taken place in ...
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Page 127 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 127 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense Whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 127 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 126 - ... acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share...
Page 126 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 126 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page 120 - ... no instruction, either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics, shall ever be allowed in any department of the University, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents, or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the University, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatever.
Page 126 - States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents or less per acre : And provided further, That not more than one million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the States : And provided further, That no such location shall be made before one year from the passage of this act.
Page 127 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 127 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.