Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Reclamation of land |
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177 Kachess Dam 50 feet 50 second-feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres alfalfa assets and liabilities Boise Boise River building charge Canal system capacities less Cement concrete construction contract Creek cubic yards Dikes diversion dam drainage basin earth elevation of spillway excavated farm units filed fiscal agent Fort Shaw Idaho installments irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season June 17 June 30 Lake lands opened length of crest Less accrued revenues less than 50 main canal maintenance charges March maximum height meridian miles with capacities Milk River Minidoka North North Platte project Number OPENED FOR IRRIGATION operation and maintenance payment Pedro Armendaris grant Principal public notice pumping Railroad reclamation act Reclamation Service Reservoir Riprap season of 1911 Secretary South Canal spillway square miles status of irrigable Storage dams Storehouse stream bed Sun River surveys total length tunnel Valley water supply water users water-right applications wife Yakima
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Page 4 - 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 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 - 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...
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...
Page 17 - That where in carrying out the provisions of this act it becomes necessary to acquire any rights or property, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire the same for the United States by purchase or by condemnation under judicial process, and to pay from the reclamation fund the sums which may be needed for that purpose...
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 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 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 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 4 - Provided: 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.