Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Reclamation of land |
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acre of irrigable acre-feet Acreage irrigated acres acres of land Alfalfa ASSETS Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Boise River building charge Bumping Lake Canal system Cement concrete construction contract Creek crops cubic yards Distribution system diversion dam division drainage drainage basin excavation farm units fiscal Fort Shaw freight illus Improvements on right installment irrigable area irrigable land irrigation plan irrigation season July June 30 Lahontan Dam Lake lands opened liabilities Lowline Canal Main Canal March Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number of farms operation and maintenance payment prepared to supply public notices pumping reclamation act Reclamation Service Rentals Reservoir schedule season of 1913 Selig Extension Canal service is prepared South Canal spillway square miles storage Strawberry structures Sun River Sunnyside supply water surveys Total building tunnel Umatilla Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Valley Valley water supply water users water-right applications Yakima Yuma
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Page 265 - 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 263 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' 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,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 264 - 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 263 - 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," the deficiency, if any, in the sum.
Page 263 - July 2, 1862," the deficiency, if any, in the sum necessary for the support of the said colleges shall be provided for from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations...
Page 265 - 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 263 - 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 263 - 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 265 - 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.
Page 264 - That the Secretary of the Interior shall, before giving the public notice provided for in section four of this act, withdraw from public entry the lands required for any irrigation works contemplated under the provisions of this act, and shall restore to public entry any of the lands so withdrawn when, in his judgment, such lands are not required for the purposes of this act...