(Seventeenth) Annual Report, 1917-18U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - 549 pages |
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1918 appropriation 32 Stat Accrued to end acre-feet acre-foot acres Alfalfa area farms reported Belle Fourche Boise Boise project Bushel Canal system cent complete Collected to end Conconully concrete construction charge Creek cubic yards Dakota diversion dam division drain end of fiscal entry Estimated acreage excavation farm unit feet filed fiscal year 1918 flume Fort Laramie Fort Shaw installments irrigable acre irrigable land irrigation district irrigation season joint construction vouchers July June 17 June 30 Lake Laramie Canal Lateral system main canal miles Milk River Minidoka Montana North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Number operation and maintenance payable Plant accounts Poplar River project manager public lands public notice pumping reclamation fund Reclamation Service rental Reservoir revenue earnings schedule season of 1917 seepage Shoshone square miles storage Strawberry Valley Sun River Tieton tion Truckee-Carson Umatilla Uncollected at end Uncompahgre Valley water users water-rental water-right application Yakima Yuma
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Page 431 - 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 434 - Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof...
Page 431 - 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 434 - 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 432 - ... entries made under the homestead laws within areas so withdrawn during such withdrawal shall be subject to all the provisions, limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of this act; that said surveys shall be prosecuted diligently to completion, and upon the completion thereof, and of the necessary maps, plans, and estimates of cost, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine whether or not said project is practicable and advisable, and if determined to be impracticable or unadvisable he...
Page 432 - ... 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 to be susceptible...
Page 441 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 432 - 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...
Page 446 - 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 440 - ... no sale of such property shall be made to enforce the collection of such tax or assessment, or any proceeding or action for such purpose commenced, except upon leave of court granted upon an application made therefor by such collector or other officer.