Extracts from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Bureau of ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - Reclamation of land |
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... flow Expenditures .. Proposed Owens Valley project 94 95 97 98 98 Yuma project . General statement . Gila crossing . Proposed San Joaquin project . California - Arizona . Laguna dam and gates Dikes .. Yuma conduit .. Distribution system ...
... flow Expenditures .. Proposed Owens Valley project 94 95 97 98 98 Yuma project . General statement . Gila crossing . Proposed San Joaquin project . California - Arizona . Laguna dam and gates Dikes .. Yuma conduit .. Distribution system ...
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... flow of Snake River , passing through gates and penstock openings ... XXXIV . Upstream face of headworks of main canal , Minidoka project ...... XXXV . General progress map of Payette - Boise project , Idaho ... XXXVI . General plan of ...
... flow of Snake River , passing through gates and penstock openings ... XXXIV . Upstream face of headworks of main canal , Minidoka project ...... XXXV . General progress map of Payette - Boise project , Idaho ... XXXVI . General plan of ...
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... flow line of Deer Flat reservoir . 118 acres comprising E.SE. and part of S. NE . sec . 19 , T. 3 N. , R. 3 W. , B. M. NE . sec . 20 , T. 3 N. , R. 3 W. , B. M. , 160 acres . 122 acres in SE . SE . sec . 33 , T. 3 N. R. 3 W. , B. M. ...
... flow line of Deer Flat reservoir . 118 acres comprising E.SE. and part of S. NE . sec . 19 , T. 3 N. , R. 3 W. , B. M. NE . sec . 20 , T. 3 N. , R. 3 W. , B. M. , 160 acres . 122 acres in SE . SE . sec . 33 , T. 3 N. R. 3 W. , B. M. ...
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... flow of the water . These gates with their operating mechanism will weigh nearly 800,000 pounds , and will be the largest ever constructed to operate under the great pres- sure of 100 pounds per square inch . The tunnel is already com ...
... flow of the water . These gates with their operating mechanism will weigh nearly 800,000 pounds , and will be the largest ever constructed to operate under the great pres- sure of 100 pounds per square inch . The tunnel is already com ...
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... flow of San Pedro River . A summary of the total expenditures on this proposed project is given in the following table : Expenditures , according to purpose and nature , on proposed San Pedro project to June 30 , 1906 . [ Total ...
... flow of San Pedro River . A summary of the total expenditures on this proposed project is given in the following table : Expenditures , according to purpose and nature , on proposed San Pedro project to June 30 , 1906 . [ Total ...
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according to purpose acre-feet acres amount approved Arizona basin Belle Fourche Boise River building Canyon capacity cent Class completed concrete construction contractors cost County cubic yards Distributing system ditches diversion dam division elevation Engineering entry estimates excavation expenditures FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT following table Fork Garland canal gates Gunnison Gunnison tunnel headworks Hondo Huntley Huntley project Idaho inches Interior Interstate canal irrigable lands irrigation July June 30 Laguna dam Lake Lower Yellowstone Madison River Main canal ment miles Milk River Minidoka dam Minidoka project Nonirrigable North Platte project Payette-Boise project plant Portland Cement project to June proposed public lands pumping purpose and nature railroad reclamation Act reclamation fund Riprap rock Salt River project second-feet Secretary Shoshone project South canal spillway station storage structures supply surveys tion Total Truckee-Carson tunnel U. S. RECLAMATION SERVICE Umatilla Uncompahgre Valley Unit price water rights Yakima Yellowstone River Yuma project
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Page 17 - 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 16 - ... that public lands which it is proposed to irrigate by means of any contemplated works shall be subject to entry only under the provisions of the homestead laws in tracts of not less than forty nor more than one hundred and sixty acres, and shall be subject to the limitations, charges, terms and conditions herein provided.
Page 15 - 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 17 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior in carrying out the provisions of this Act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semiarid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...
Page 17 - Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 15 - ... 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 "reclamation fund...
Page 16 - ... 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; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by...
Page 13 - 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...
Page 16 - ... 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 24 - 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.