Death Valley National Monument (Furnace Creek Area--water Rights and Related Matters): Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second SessionExamines National Park Service administration of land and water resources in Death Valley National Monument, focusing on Park Service plans to legalize Death Valley Hotel Co. control over large portions of the Monument's water supply. |
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... Ranch ( also known as Furnace Creek Ranch ) 455 Excerpt from general report , New York office , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , March 1912 .. 458 Letter from Fred W. Corkill , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , Inyo County , Calif . , to William L ...
... Ranch ( also known as Furnace Creek Ranch ) 455 Excerpt from general report , New York office , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , March 1912 .. 458 Letter from Fred W. Corkill , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , Inyo County , Calif . , to William L ...
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... Ranch and Water Rights , " by Clarence M. Rasor , October 1941_ . Letter from Harry P. Gower , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , Death Valley , Calif . , to Frank M. Jenifer , August 12 , 1942 . Memorandum from Ralph S. Brown , Death Valley ...
... Ranch and Water Rights , " by Clarence M. Rasor , October 1941_ . Letter from Harry P. Gower , Pacific Coast Borax Co. , Death Valley , Calif . , to Frank M. Jenifer , August 12 , 1942 . Memorandum from Ralph S. Brown , Death Valley ...
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... ranch . A land exchange has been proposed that involves hotel company lands north of Furnace Creek Ranch . That is this territory [ in- dicating ] . We do not have the exact boundaries shown correctly on this map , but in the copies we ...
... ranch . A land exchange has been proposed that involves hotel company lands north of Furnace Creek Ranch . That is this territory [ in- dicating ] . We do not have the exact boundaries shown correctly on this map , but in the copies we ...
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... ranch property . The tunnel is on the inn property . The Texas Spring water is also conveyed across Federal lands to the inn and ranch properties . One of the travertine springs on Federal land in Furnace Creek Wash is located within ...
... ranch property . The tunnel is on the inn property . The Texas Spring water is also conveyed across Federal lands to the inn and ranch properties . One of the travertine springs on Federal land in Furnace Creek Wash is located within ...
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... Ranch property ; and the equivalent of 6 cubic feet per second from Texas Spring , is for use on the Furnace Creek Ranch property in the east half of section 16 , and on two locations of borate deposits ( which use on locations for the ...
... Ranch property ; and the equivalent of 6 cubic feet per second from Texas Spring , is for use on the Furnace Creek Ranch property in the east half of section 16 , and on two locations of borate deposits ( which use on locations for the ...
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acres Advisory Board Albright appraisal asked BINNEWIES borax company building Calif Chairman construction copy correct county of Inyo Cow Creek area Death Valley Hotel Death Valley National decision Department discussed document employees exhibit facilities Fred Harvey Furnace Creek area Furnace Creek Ranch Furnace Creek Wash Gerstley Government ground water headquarters HILL HILTON Horace Horace Albright hotel company indicated INDRITZ interest Interior Inyo Inyo County KUNKEL land letter MANBEY McCLORY MCDONOUGH memorandum ment MERRIAM miner's inches Mission 66 Moss museum National Park Service Nevares Springs NORGARD opinion Pacific Coast Borax parcel present proposed question recommended record referred regional director resurvey road ROMNEY Scotty's Castle subcommittee subject property superintendent syncline Texas Spring campground tion Travertine Springs U.S. Borax U.S. Geological Survey utility area Valley National Monument Vint visitor center water rights water supply WIRTH
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Page 104 - ... located on unsurveyed public land be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for public use in accordance with the provisions of section 10 of the act of December 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 865; 43 USC 300) , and in aid of pending legislation.
Page 632 - Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 632 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 405 - No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Page 572 - ... all lands which are, on the date of such withdrawal, embraced in any lawful homestead or desert-land entry theretofore made, or upon which any valid settlement has been made and is at said date being maintained and perfected pursuant to law...
Page 572 - Alaska and reserve the same for water-power sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be specified in the orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.
Page 269 - Lake base and meridian, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of said section...
Page 632 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage."41 Rev.
Page 632 - The power of the Government to reserve the waters and exempt them from appropriation under the state laws is not denied, and could not be.
Page 315 - Amendments of 1962 indicate that the term safe has reference to health of man, nowhere do they define safety. Discussing this subject before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives, the Commissioner of FDA pointed out that no effective drug can be absolutely safe. Therefore, evaluating safety of a drug requires weighing benefit against risk.