Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of Reclamation, Issue 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - Reclamation of land |
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50 cents acre-feet acres Average rainfall Belle Fourche Bidder D Bidder F Buford-Trenton Building Canals and structures cement cents per cu cents per cubic Company completed construction contract contractors County Creek cubic yards culverts delivery 5 months distributing system district ditches Diversion dam division Duty of water embankment Engineering expenditures farm units feet B. M. feet long fiscal following table foot force account Fort Shaw Garland canal head gates headworks Huntley project inches Irrigable area irrigable land irrigation ITEM July June 30 kilowatts Klamath Lake laterals linear feet Lower Yellowstone main canal miles Milk River North Dakota North Platte North Platte project operation pipe plant principal data relating project are summarized project to June Railroad Railway Reclamation Service Rejected reservoir Riprap River project Schedule second-feet Shoshone siphon South canal square steel storage Sun River surveys Total tunnel Uncompahgre Valley volts Williston Wyoming Yakima Yuma
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Page 2 - 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 2 - 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 2 - ... shall give public notice of the lands irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question...
Page 3 - ... 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, and the Secretary of the 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 3 - Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 2 - 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...
Page 2 - That upon the determination by the Secretary of the Interior that any irrigation project is practicable, he may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same...
Page 2 - 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 shall thereupon restore said lands to entry...
Page 2 - ... 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...
Page 3 - General of the United States upon every application of the Secretary of the Interior, under this act, to cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.