Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands of the House of Representatives April 23: June 1 and 8, 1910 |
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... Increase in land values . Farms available .. Success of settlers .. Hearing June 1 , 1910 : Repayments .. Apportionment by States . Criticisms of the service .. General condition of all projects .. Rio Grande project .. Lands available ...
... Increase in land values . Farms available .. Success of settlers .. Hearing June 1 , 1910 : Repayments .. Apportionment by States . Criticisms of the service .. General condition of all projects .. Rio Grande project .. Lands available ...
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... increasing any of its works , property , or rights , or for the fulfillment of any obligation undertaken by it , or for the carrying out of any of its powers , may be assessed against all the shareholders in proportion to the number of ...
... increasing any of its works , property , or rights , or for the fulfillment of any obligation undertaken by it , or for the carrying out of any of its powers , may be assessed against all the shareholders in proportion to the number of ...
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... increased nor diminished during their respective terms of office . SEC . 2. In case of the absence , illness , or inability of the president to act from any cause , or in case of a vacancy in that office , the vice - president shall act ...
... increased nor diminished during their respective terms of office . SEC . 2. In case of the absence , illness , or inability of the president to act from any cause , or in case of a vacancy in that office , the vice - president shall act ...
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... increased in volume to serve the land if carefully used . The CHAIRMAN . Will you be able probably to secure sufficient water to irrigate the lands ? Mr. NEWELL . Yes , sir ; if the people who own the lands will utilize that water ...
... increased in volume to serve the land if carefully used . The CHAIRMAN . Will you be able probably to secure sufficient water to irrigate the lands ? Mr. NEWELL . Yes , sir ; if the people who own the lands will utilize that water ...
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... increase in cost of this and other projects has been due to the general increase in cost of material , the scarcity and high price of labor , and the relatively low efficiency of the labor under the prevail- ing high wages . This increase ...
... increase in cost of this and other projects has been due to the general increase in cost of material , the scarcity and high price of labor , and the relatively low efficiency of the labor under the prevail- ing high wages . This increase ...
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300 and greater 50 second-feet acre of irrigable acre-feet acres alfalfa amount approved association Average annual rainfall Average elevation Belle Fourche Boise River by-laws capacities less cent CHAIRMAN construction contract cost crop cubic yards depreciation diversion dam drainage basin elevation of irrigable estimated expenditures expense farm units feet above sea Finney County fiscal agent Garden City Government greater than 50 HITCHCOCK Idaho Interior irrigable area irrigable land Kansas Klamath labor land office Lands irrigated Leasburg length of crest maximum height Mexico miles with capacities Milk River Minidoka Montana NEWELL North Dakota North Platte project operation and maintenance payments project engineer public lands pumping plant Railroad rainfall on irrigable reclamation act reclamation fund Reclamation Service reservoir sea level season of 1909 Secretary settlers soil of irrigable spillway stream bed Sun River temperature on irrigable tion Valley water rights water supply water users water-right applications whole project Yuma
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Page 79 - 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 8 - 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 67 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado. Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico...
Page 68 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States, or on entries or claims validated by this Act, west of the one hundredth meridian, it shall be expressed that there is reserved from lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 64 - 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 168 - ... the waters of the Milk River, or so much of such amount as constitutes three-fourths of its natural flow, and that Canada is entitled to a prior appropriation of 500 cubic feet per second of the flow of St. Mary River, or so much of such amount as constitutes three fourths of its natural flow.
Page 117 - ... 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 77 - 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 131 - ... a failure to make any two payments when due shall render the entry subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act, as well as of any moneys already paid thereon.
Page 11 - On this day of , personally appeared before me, a shipping commissioner in and for the said county, AB, CD, and EF, severally known to...