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... irrigation projects dependent upon the waters of the Colorado River below Boulder Canyon is summarized in the report of the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation on the Swing- Johnson bill 22 and the Fall - Davis report of 1922 ...
... irrigation projects dependent upon the waters of the Colorado River below Boulder Canyon is summarized in the report of the Senate Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation on the Swing- Johnson bill 22 and the Fall - Davis report of 1922 ...
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... Irrigation and its Relation to the Imperial Valley , California , " by C. E. Grunsky , dated June 30 , 1907 ... committee print , published for Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands , House , 66th Cong . , 3d sess . ( 1921 ) . " Problems ...
... Irrigation and its Relation to the Imperial Valley , California , " by C. E. Grunsky , dated June 30 , 1907 ... committee print , published for Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands , House , 66th Cong . , 3d sess . ( 1921 ) . " Problems ...
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... irrigation storage works was largely dictated by considera- tions involving the marketing of power to finance the structure . The report by Senator Johnson of the Senate Committee on Irrigation 33 " Report on the Problems of the ...
... irrigation storage works was largely dictated by considera- tions involving the marketing of power to finance the structure . The report by Senator Johnson of the Senate Committee on Irrigation 33 " Report on the Problems of the ...
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... Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation ( S. Rept . No. 592 , 70th Cong . , 1928 ) , as follows ( p . 13 ) : HOW THE PROJECT TOOK FORM As early as January 12 , 1907 , President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a message upon the problems ...
... Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation ( S. Rept . No. 592 , 70th Cong . , 1928 ) , as follows ( p . 13 ) : HOW THE PROJECT TOOK FORM As early as January 12 , 1907 , President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a message upon the problems ...
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... water supply at all times for lands within the United States , and the ... Committee on Ways and Means on August 14 , 1919 , and no further action was ... Irrigation and Reclamation on H. R. 6044 ( 66th Cong . , 1st sess . ) : All ...
... water supply at all times for lands within the United States , and the ... Committee on Ways and Means on August 14 , 1919 , and no further action was ... Irrigation and Reclamation on H. R. 6044 ( 66th Cong . , 1st sess . ) : All ...
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1st sess 2d sess acre-feet acre-feet of water acres Adjustment Act agreed agreement All-American Canal allocation allottees amount and/or annual appendix apportionment appropriations approved appurtenant aqueduct arbitrators Arizona Article authorized beneficial consumptive Boulder Canyon Project Boulder Dam Boulder Power Plant Bullshead Bureau of Reclamation Canyon Project Act City Coachella Valleys Colorado River Compact Colorado River System Committee on Irrigation Congress construction contract cost delivered delivery of water District of Southern diversion Edison Company electrical energy equipment firm energy flow Gila hereby hereof hereunder Hoover Dam Imperial Dam Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Valley Interior Laguna Dam lands Lee Ferry lower basin ment Metropolitan Water District Mexico Nevada Operating Agent operation and maintenance Parker Dam parties hereto payment priority purposes pursuant ratified regulations reservoir San Diego Secretary Senate Southern California Southern California Edison Stat storage tion treaty United upper basin Utah Wyoming Yuma project
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Page 44 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page A-97 - In America, the powers of sovereignty are divided between the government of the Union and those of the States. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed to the other.
Page A-98 - And the powers of the General Government, and of the State, although both exist and are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres.
Page A-190 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than twenty million acre-feet of water...
Page A-98 - And we have already had occasion to remark at this term, that " the people of each State compose a State, having its own government, and endowed with all the functions essential to separate and independent existence," and that " without the States in union, there could be no such political body as the United States.
Page A-441 - No Member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioner shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit that may arise herefrom, but this restriction shall not be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation or company for its general benefit.
Page A-15 - Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic" in said Colorado River compact. SEC. 13. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Congress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes...
Page A-806 - That it shall not be lawful to construct or commence the construction of any bridge, dam, dike, or causeway over or in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other navigable water of the United States until the consent of Congress...
Page A-24 - The representatives of the signatory States have signed this agreement in a single original which shall be deposited in the archives of the Department of State of the United States, and a duly certified copy shall be forwarded to the Governor of each of the signatory States.
Page A-222 - 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...