Colorado River Basin: Hearings, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6251 and H.R. 9826U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Water resources development |
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... Doctor Mead and then determine what the procedure should be after he had made a general statement . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . I suppose the doctor , being a very good- natured gentleman , would return here at any time for us to get further ...
... Doctor Mead and then determine what the procedure should be after he had made a general statement . Mr. LEATHERWOOD . I suppose the doctor , being a very good- natured gentleman , would return here at any time for us to get further ...
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... Doctor Mead is here , that we hear him . There are some things that I will desire to say in reply to Mr. Hayden's position when we come to a discussion of the bill . Mr. LEAVITT . I would like to ask Mr. Hayden a question : Sup- pose ...
... Doctor Mead is here , that we hear him . There are some things that I will desire to say in reply to Mr. Hayden's position when we come to a discussion of the bill . Mr. LEAVITT . I would like to ask Mr. Hayden a question : Sup- pose ...
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... Doctor Mead and these other gentlemen can not be heard on this bill at this time ? Mr. HAYDEN . None at all . I ... Mead , the Commissioner of Reclamation . STATEMENT OF DR . ELWOOD MEAD , COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION The CHAIRMAN ...
... Doctor Mead and these other gentlemen can not be heard on this bill at this time ? Mr. HAYDEN . None at all . I ... Mead , the Commissioner of Reclamation . STATEMENT OF DR . ELWOOD MEAD , COMMISSIONER OF RECLAMATION The CHAIRMAN ...
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... Doctor MEAD . No , sir . Mr. SINNOTT . It was not ? Doctor MEAD . I do not think that any one could claim that the river is a navigable stream . Whatever it may have been once , it would take a new kind of a boat that could find its way ...
... Doctor MEAD . No , sir . Mr. SINNOTT . It was not ? Doctor MEAD . I do not think that any one could claim that the river is a navigable stream . Whatever it may have been once , it would take a new kind of a boat that could find its way ...
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... Doctor MEAD . I do not know from memory just what the acreage is . There is , however , between two and three hundred thousand acres altogether of the land outside of the present Imperial irrigated area that needs additional water ...
... Doctor MEAD . I do not know from memory just what the acreage is . There is , however , between two and three hundred thousand acres altogether of the land outside of the present Imperial irrigated area that needs additional water ...
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acre-feet acres agreement all-American canal amendments amount appropriation of water ARENTZ authorized BANNISTER benefit bill Black Canyon Dam bonds Boulder Canyon Dam Boulder Canyon project Boulder Dam Bridge Canyon build Canyon project CARPENTER CHAIRMAN city of Denver Coachella Valley Colorado River Basin Colorado River compact Committee on Irrigation Congress construction contract cost district diversion Doctor MEAD electrical energy Federal Government Federal Power Commission flood control flow Glen Canyon Glen Canyon Dam HAYDEN HEARD hereby HOPKINS horsepower HUDSPETH Imperial Valley interest Interior Irrigation and Reclamation Laguna Dam lands LEATHERWOOD legislation legislatures licenses lower basin lower Colorado River matter ment MERRILL Mexican Mexico Muscle Shoals navigation Nevada paragraph power development power plant proposed purpose question ratified reclamation law reservoir revenue Salton Sea Secretary Senate SINNOTT six-State statement storage stream subdivision SWING thereof tion Undersecretary WINSTON United upper basin Utah water rights WHITTINGTON Wyoming
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Page 220 - 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...
Page 92 - That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to borrow on the credit of the United States from time to time, as the proceeds may be required to defray expenditures authorized by this Act...
Page 191 - System may be impounded and used for the generation of electrical power, but such impounding and use shall be subservient to the use and consumption of such water for agricultural and domestic purposes and shall not interfere with or prevent use for such dominant purposes.
Page 97 - 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...
Page 117 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such general regulations as he may prescribe, to contract for the storage of water in said reservoir and for the delivery thereof at such points on the river and on said canal as may be agreed upon, for irrigation and domestic uses...
Page 5 - 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 144 - The shores of navigable waters and the soils under them were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively.
Page 144 - ... underlying navigable waters within the several States belong to the respective States in virtue of their sovereignty, and may be used and disposed of as they may direct, subject always to the rights of the public in such waters and to the paramount power of Congress to control their navigation so far as may be necessary for the regulation of commerce among the States and with foreign nations, and that each new State, upon its admission to the Union, becomes endowed with the same rights and powers...
Page 224 - ... or so much thereof as may be necessary, and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States...
Page 16 - October 23, 1918, between the United States and the Imperial Irrigation District, providing for a connection with Laguna Dam ; but the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into contract or contracts with the said district or other districts, persons, or agencies for the construction, in accordance with this Act, of said canal and appurtenant structures, and also for the operation and maintenance thereof, with the consent of the other users.