Reclamation Bonds: Hearings, 61st Congress, 2d SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Irrigation |
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... Poindexter , Hon . Miles , M. C. , Washington . Pray , Hon . Charles N. , M. C. , Montana .. 3-21 190-207 169-174 149-150 127-134 , 183-189 65-107 , 138-140 , 158 174-182 , 216-218 208-215 151-158 219-250 Smith , Hon . William R ...
... Poindexter , Hon . Miles , M. C. , Washington . Pray , Hon . Charles N. , M. C. , Montana .. 3-21 190-207 169-174 149-150 127-134 , 183-189 65-107 , 138-140 , 158 174-182 , 216-218 208-215 151-158 219-250 Smith , Hon . William R ...
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... Poindexter , Mr. Pray , and the gentleman from California ; I think there are four or five others who would like to be heard . If the committee will bear with me just a minute , I would like to make this very brief statement . There is ...
... Poindexter , Mr. Pray , and the gentleman from California ; I think there are four or five others who would like to be heard . If the committee will bear with me just a minute , I would like to make this very brief statement . There is ...
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... POINDEXTER . The estimate is $ 71,000,000 . Mr. NEEDHAM . About $ 125,000,000 . The CHAIRMAN . We can get the information from the reports . Mr. HOWELL . I believe it has been suggested here , and some members of the committee have ...
... POINDEXTER . The estimate is $ 71,000,000 . Mr. NEEDHAM . About $ 125,000,000 . The CHAIRMAN . We can get the information from the reports . Mr. HOWELL . I believe it has been suggested here , and some members of the committee have ...
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... POINDEXTER , A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON . Mr. POINDEXTER . I only have a short statement to make in support of this bill . In reply to the question asked by the gentleman from New York as to whether or not the credit ...
... POINDEXTER , A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON . Mr. POINDEXTER . I only have a short statement to make in support of this bill . In reply to the question asked by the gentleman from New York as to whether or not the credit ...
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... POINDEXTER . Those in Washington did not require any such engineering feats as the Shoshone dam or this tunnel down in Colo- rado . They were large enterprises and a good many difficulties had to be confronted . One of the unexpected ...
... POINDEXTER . Those in Washington did not require any such engineering feats as the Shoshone dam or this tunnel down in Colo- rado . They were large enterprises and a good many difficulties had to be confronted . One of the unexpected ...
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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...