Diversion of the Waters of the North Platte River and Construction of the Saratoga Reclamation Project: Hearing Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. 1135, a Bill to Provide for the Storage for Diversion of the Waters of the North Platte River and Construction of the Saratoga Reclamation Project. January 16, 1928 |
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... interfere with the water supply of the Pathfinder Reservoir . That seemed to me rather of a far - fetched argument ... interference with the water supply of the Pathfinder Reservoir . That is all included in the estimate . Senator ...
... interfere with the water supply of the Pathfinder Reservoir . That seemed to me rather of a far - fetched argument ... interference with the water supply of the Pathfinder Reservoir . That is all included in the estimate . Senator ...
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... interference with Pathfinder Reservoir would be very nominal , indeed . But for such interference as there may be a liberal allowance has been made in the estimate , and even with that the construction cost is still stated as only $ 67 ...
... interference with Pathfinder Reservoir would be very nominal , indeed . But for such interference as there may be a liberal allowance has been made in the estimate , and even with that the construction cost is still stated as only $ 67 ...
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... interference there might be with Pathfinder . That is entered in the estimated cost of $ 67 per acre . I am not going to - day into the situation of Wyoming's thought in regard to her contributions to the reclamation fund . They have ...
... interference there might be with Pathfinder . That is entered in the estimated cost of $ 67 per acre . I am not going to - day into the situation of Wyoming's thought in regard to her contributions to the reclamation fund . They have ...
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... interfere materially or perhaps at all with the amount of water that you would require for the Saratoga enterprise . Governor EMERSON . No , sir . It was said in the other hearing that we are entirely willing to concede to Colorado full ...
... interfere materially or perhaps at all with the amount of water that you would require for the Saratoga enterprise . Governor EMERSON . No , sir . It was said in the other hearing that we are entirely willing to concede to Colorado full ...
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... interfere with the develop- ment of the Casper - Alcova project . Senator KENDRICK . Nor with any other development on the Platte River ? Mr. GREENFIELD . Nor with any other project on the Platte River . By mere diversion ditches - it ...
... interfere with the develop- ment of the Casper - Alcova project . Senator KENDRICK . Nor with any other development on the Platte River ? Mr. GREENFIELD . Nor with any other project on the Platte River . By mere diversion ditches - it ...
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$67 an acre $67 per acre alfalfa altitude amount of water appurtenant structures areas ASHURST average barley bench land bottom lands bushels per acre canals and appurtenant Carbon County CHAIRMAN Colorado committee construction charge construction cost direct flow estimated cost fact farmers feasible going Governor EMERSON GREENFIELD grow hereby authorized Huntley project Interior irrigation and reclamation livestock ment Native hay North Platte project North Platte River oats Pass Creek Flats Pathfinder Dam Pathfinder Reservoir permanent fund Phipps production question reason reclamation law Reclamation Service replacement storage River and construction road San Luis Valley Saratoga project Secretary Senator JOHNSON Senator KENDRICK Senator MCNARY Senator PITTMAN Senator WALSH Shoshone project situation statement storage and diversion storage for diversion stream sugar beets taxes tion to-day Union Pacific Rail Union Pacific Railroad water rights water supply Willwood unit witness Wyoming yield
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Page 2 - 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 2 - That all lands of the United States found by the Secretary of the Interior to be practicable of irrigation and reclamation by the irrigation works authorized herein shall be withdrawn from public entry. Thereafter, at the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, such lands shall be opened for entry, in tracts varying in size but not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions...
Page 1 - ... purposes in the Imperial or Coachella Valleys ; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir ; and to acquire by proceedings in eminent domain, or otherwise, all lands, rights of way, and other property necessary for said purposes. Sec. 2. (a) There is hereby established a special fund,...
Page 1 - Reclamation law" 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 land 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 2 - Secretary, of the construction cost of said canal and appurtenant structures ; said payments to be made in such installments and at such times as may be specified by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the said reclamation law, and...
Page 2 - States free of encumbrance to again become a part of the public domain under a contract between the United States and the individual owner providing that the value as shown by said appraisal of the land so conveyed to the United States shall be credited in reduction of the construction charge thereafter to be assessed against the land retained by such owner; and lands so conveyed to the United States shall be subject to disposition by the Secretary of the Ihterior in farm units at the appraised price,...
Page 2 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and accomplish the purposes of this Act.
Page 2 - That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $500,000, to be set aside as a separate fund in the Treasury, to be known as the employees
Page 2 - Interior, such lands shall be opened for entry, in tracts varying in size but not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the reclamation law, and any such entryman shall pay...
Page 2 - Large, pages 123-130) ; all lands, except lands owned by individual Indians, at the date of public notice in excess of one hundred and sixty acres not disposed of by bona fide sale within two years after said public notice shall be conveyed in fee to the United States free of encumbrance to again become a part of the public domain under contract between the United States and the individual owners at the...