... The U. S. Reclamation Service: Its History, Activities and OrganizationD. Appleton, 1919 - 177 pages |
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... cost for survey or price such desert lands , not exceeding one mil- lion acres in each State , as the State may cause to be irrigated , reclaimed , occupied , and not less than twenty acres of each one hundred and sixty acre tract ...
... cost for survey or price such desert lands , not exceeding one mil- lion acres in each State , as the State may cause to be irrigated , reclaimed , occupied , and not less than twenty acres of each one hundred and sixty acre tract ...
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... cost and necessary expenses of reclamation and reasonable interest thereon from the date of recla- mation until disposed of to actual settlers , " such lien to be " valid on and against the separate legal subdivisions of land reclaimed ...
... cost and necessary expenses of reclamation and reasonable interest thereon from the date of recla- mation until disposed of to actual settlers , " such lien to be " valid on and against the separate legal subdivisions of land reclaimed ...
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... cost of money to the company at the rate of 7 per cent or more on the basis of a 6 per cent bond , and in addition requiring the redemption payment for the bond to be from 20 to 25 per cent greater than the original proceeds . The cost ...
... cost of money to the company at the rate of 7 per cent or more on the basis of a 6 per cent bond , and in addition requiring the redemption payment for the bond to be from 20 to 25 per cent greater than the original proceeds . The cost ...
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... cost from irrigated land . Under the Government projects of the Recla- mation Service the items of interest and profit have been elim- inated , but the costs of colonization and administration re- main , in addition to the actual costs ...
... cost from irrigated land . Under the Government projects of the Recla- mation Service the items of interest and profit have been elim- inated , but the costs of colonization and administration re- main , in addition to the actual costs ...
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... cost of construction and capacity of reservoirs , and such other facts as bear on the question of storage of water for irrigat- ing purposes ; and that he be further directed to report to Congress as soon as practicable the result of ...
... cost of construction and capacity of reservoirs , and such other facts as bear on the question of storage of water for irrigat- ing purposes ; and that he be further directed to report to Congress as soon as practicable the result of ...
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Page 64 - That when the payments required by this act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters of any of the works herein provided for, then the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby...
Page 104 - 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 107 - ... 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 121 - 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 117 - 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 5 - Territories," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, binding the United States to donate, grant, and patent to the State free of cost for survey or price such desert lands, not exceeding one million acres in each State, as the State may cause to be irrigated, reclaimed, occupied, and not less than twenty acres of each one hundred and...
Page 105 - ... irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells, and to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the practicability of each irrigation project; also the cost of wo*rks in process of construction, as well as of those which have...
Page 132 - EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the...
Page 58 - ... 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 112 - Interior any lands which have been acquired under the provisions of the act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), commonly called the "reclamation act...