Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa amount annual area farms reported August 13 Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Boise River built Bushels Canal system cent complete Colorado concrete construction charge construction of project cost of construction Creek crops cubic yards Dakota diversion dam division drainage drains engineer excavation farm unit fiscal year 1917 flume Fort Laramie gates Government forces headworks High Line Idaho inches Indian installments Interior irrigable acre irrigable area irrigable land irrigation irrigation season July June 30 Lake Lateral system liabilities main canal maintenance charges March miles Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte Number operation and maintenance project manager project to June public notice Reclamation Service Reservoir River project Salt River Salt River project schedule season of 1916 second-feet Secretary seepage Shoshone South Canal spillway storage structures Sun River supply surveys Tieton tion Total tunnel Uncollected Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Valley Unpaid water users water-right applicants Yakima Yuma
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Page 547 - 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 551 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts 'and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page 547 - 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 545 - 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 545 - 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 392 - It is also further agreed that no Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner, after his election or appointment, or either before or after he has qualified, and during his continuance in office...
Page 547 - 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 547 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 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 545 - ... per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the
Page 546 - 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 ; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, at or immediately prior to the time of beginning the surveys for any contemplated irrigation works, to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed...