Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - Forest reserves |
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1897 in Water-Supply 1898 are given 20 JULY 20 JUNE 20 SEPT acre-feet Arkansas River August Average canal canyon capacity Colorado County Creek cubic feet December Depth in inches Discharge in second-feet ditch Dolores River Drainage area drainage basin elevation Estimated monthly discharge February feet per second feet per square flow Fork gage height Georgia given in Water-Supply heights for 1898 Humboldt River Irrigation Paper January Kansas Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands MARCH APRIL Maxi Mean miner's inches Mini Month mountains mouth Nineteenth Annual Report Normal North Platte North Platte River NOTE.-Gage heights November Oconee River October precipitation rating table RECORD reservoir sites results for 1897 Rio San Juan Run-off Sec.-ft September South square miles storage stream Supply and Irrigation survey Tohickon Creek Total in acre tributaries Valley Water-Supply and Irrigation Yakima River ост
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Page 449 - than one quarter section, and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said State for the support of common schools, such indemnity lands to be selected within said State in such manner as the legislature may provide, with the approval of the Secretary of
Page 449 - An act to provide for the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union," provides: " That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said State, and where such sections, or any part thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other
Page 26 - the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.
Page 405 - be made as follows:' To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing laud, not exceeding one-quarter of a section. To each single person over 18 years of age, one-eighth of a section,
Page 449 - except that reservoir sites heretofore located or selected shall remain segregated and reserved from entry or settlement, as provided by said act, until otherwise provided by law, and reservoir sites hereafter located or selected on public lands shall in like manner be reserved from the date of location or selection thereof. The
Page 216 - reservoirs is to collect the surplus water, principally from the precipitation of winter, spring, and early summer, to be systematically released so as to benefit navigation upon the Mississippi River below the dams and as far down as Lake Pepin.
Page 449 - in the said Territory shall be surveyed, under the direction of the Government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same. Section
Page 449 - are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject, after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation nntil further provided by law.
Page 26 - the Secretary of the Interior, by means of the Director of the Geological Survey, to make an investigation of that portion of the arid region of the United States where agriculture is carried on by means of irrigation.
Page 449 - numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of said State, and where such sections, or any part thereof, have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other