Water-supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological SurveyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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1901 are given 20 feet A. L. Fellows acre-feet acres acres were irrigated April Arkansas River August average Bayou bushels Colorado River cost County Creek crop December Depth in inches Depth in square Discharge in second-feet discharge measurements ditch Drainage area drainage basin Eagle Lake east Estimated monthly discharge F. H. Newell feet deep feet long feet per Depth feet wide flow flume Gage height gallons a minute given in Water-Supply heights and discharge horsepower irrigated Irrigation Company Irrigation Papers irrigation plant irrigation systems Lake land lift Matagorda County measurements for 1901 miles long NOTE.-Gage heights November Nueces River October operating Pine Island Bayou pipe pollution pumping plant rating table reservoir Run-off sacks Salt River Sec.-ft Sept September soil South Platte River spring square miles station stream supply Taylors Bayou Toyah tributaries U. S. Geological Survey Valley Water-Supply and Irrigation Water-Supply Paper
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Seite 42 - ... and upon payment of twenty-five cents per acre — to file a declaration under oath with the register and the receiver of the land district in which any desert land is situated, that he intends to reclaim a tract of desert land not exceeding one section, by conducting water upon the same, within the period of three years thereafter...
Seite 46 - An Act Making Appropriations for the Sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five,' approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, a lien or liens is hereby authorized to be created by the state to which such lands are granted and by no other authority whatever, and when created shall be valid on and against the separate legal subdivisions of land reclaimed for the actual cost and necessary expenses of reclamation...
Seite 42 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Seite 127 - It seems to be the rule of the common law that a riparian owner has no right to use the water of the stream for irrigating his lands, provided it interferes with the uses of the water by those who own the lands upon the stream below. That this is a proper rule in England and in those States where the rainfall is sufficient for the purposes of agriculture we freely concede, but we are of opinion that in those sections where irrigation is necessary to the successful pursuit of farming it should not...
Seite 46 - ... the actual cost and necessary expenses of reclamation and reasonable interest thereon from the date of reclamation until disposed of to actual settlers; and when an ample supply of water is actually furnished in a substantial ditch or canal, or by artesian wells or reservoirs, to reclaim a particular tract or tracts of such lands, then patents shall issue for the same to such State without regard to settlement or cultivation...
Seite 44 - That all lands exclusive of timber lands and mineral lands which will not, without irrigation, produce some agricultural crop, shall be deemed desert lands, within the meaning of this act, which fact shall be ascertained by proof of two or more credible witnesses under oath, whose affidavits shall be filed in the land office in which said tract of land may be situated.
Seite 9 - SEC. 4. The board shall organize by the election of one of its members as president, one member as secretary and one member as treasurer; provided, however, that the office of secretary and treasurer may be held by one person.
Seite 9 - The supervisor of each district shall make out a list of all persons in his district, who have been residents in such district thirty days, and file a copy of the same with the clerk of the board of county commissioners at the February term in each year, showing a full and concise statement of all labor performed, moneys received and paid out, and if...
Seite 43 - ... the receiver of the reclamation and cultivation of said land to the extent and cost and in the manner aforesaid, and substantially in accordance with the plans herein provided for, and that he or she is a citizen of the United States...
Seite 43 - ... no person or association of persons shall hold, by assignment or otherwise prior to the issue of patent, more than three hundred and twenty acres of such arid or desert lands; but this section shall not apply to entries made or initiated prior to the approval of this act...