Reclamation Bonds: Hearings, 61st Congress, 2d SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Irrigation |
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... Idaho . Howell , Hon . Joseph , M. C. , Utah .. 29-33 Kinkaid , Hon . M. P. , M. C. , Nebraska . Martin , Hon . John A. , M. C. , Colorado Mondell , Hon . Frank W. , M. C. , Wyoming . Morgan , Hon . Dick T. , M. C. , Oklahoma Newell ...
... Idaho . Howell , Hon . Joseph , M. C. , Utah .. 29-33 Kinkaid , Hon . M. P. , M. C. , Nebraska . Martin , Hon . John A. , M. C. , Colorado Mondell , Hon . Frank W. , M. C. , Wyoming . Morgan , Hon . Dick T. , M. C. , Oklahoma Newell ...
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... Idaho , Wyoming , and other States . In all those States it is necessary to expedite the work in order to retain the water rights . The same thing is true as to international water rights ; the waters crossing the boundary into Canada ...
... Idaho , Wyoming , and other States . In all those States it is necessary to expedite the work in order to retain the water rights . The same thing is true as to international water rights ; the waters crossing the boundary into Canada ...
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... Idaho of that kind . There is one in Nebraska , where a portion of the project has not yet been finished and settlers went on the land expecting to get water , and they have been waiting for two or three years and some of them longer ...
... Idaho of that kind . There is one in Nebraska , where a portion of the project has not yet been finished and settlers went on the land expecting to get water , and they have been waiting for two or three years and some of them longer ...
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... Idaho . Mr. UNDERWOOD . How much did that project cost the Government ? Mr. DAVIS . We spent on the project about $ 1,800,000 . Mr. UNDERWOOD . How long ago was that completed ? Mr. DAVIS . The part that is being irrigated was completed ...
... Idaho . Mr. UNDERWOOD . How much did that project cost the Government ? Mr. DAVIS . We spent on the project about $ 1,800,000 . Mr. UNDERWOOD . How long ago was that completed ? Mr. DAVIS . The part that is being irrigated was completed ...
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... Idaho , the Boise project , which is a very large project , that has been started . Mr. CLARK . If a fellow could go in and enter 160 acres of land at $ 1.25 an acre or homestead it , and then an irrigation project came along , it would ...
... Idaho , the Boise project , which is a very large project , that has been started . Mr. CLARK . If a fellow could go in and enter 160 acres of land at $ 1.25 an acre or homestead it , and then an irrigation project came along , it would ...
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acres amount approved arid association AUPPERLE authorized bill Boise bonds BROUSSARD canal cent certificates CHAIRMAN Cimarron River CLARK Colorado committee complete CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost DALZELL DAVIS ditches engineer entry estimated expended expenditures extensions farms feasible projects FORDNEY gentleman Government Grand Valley HAMER HARRISON homestead Huntley project Idaho Interior irrigated lands irrigation irrigation projects issue labor Land Office LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LONGWORTH matter ment Mexico Milk River Minidoka MONDELL Montana necessary NEEDHAM NEWELL North Dakota North Platte North Platte project Oklahoma Oregon Payette-Boise POINDEXTER portion PRAY private lands proposition public lands question receipts reclamation act reclamation fund reclamation projects Reclamation Service reservoir River project sale of public Salt River Secretary BALLINGER Sereno E settlers Shoshone project statement Sun River TAYLOR Territories tion Treasury UNDERWOOD United Washington water rights Water Users withdraw Wyoming
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Page 128 - 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 142 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 129 - 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 263 - ... shall be exempt from all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under State, municipal, or local authority...
Page 151 - 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 128 - ... 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...
Page 129 - ... then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 141 - Treaty is word for word as follows: The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of.
Page 129 - That where in carrying out the provisions of this act it becomes necessary to acquire any rights or property, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to acquire the same for the United States by purchase or by condemnation under judicial process, and to pay from the reclamation fund the sums which may be needed for that purpose...
Page 142 - And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the city of...