Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, Частина 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890
 

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Сторінка 17 - For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows...
Сторінка 15 - An act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen...
Сторінка 27 - ... irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation until further provided by law : Provided, That the President may at any time in his discretion by proclamation open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settlement under the homestead laws.
Сторінка 17 - And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act to entry, settlement, or occupation until further provided by law...
Сторінка 14 - ... region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of...
Сторінка 38 - ... in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Director of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, shall make a report to Congress on the...
Сторінка 4 - ... irrigation on the Great Plains will be equaled by the lands redeemed from floods in the great valley of the Lower Mississippi.41 These statements, occasioned by a Senate resolution of February 1888 directing the Secretary of the Interior to state whether in his opinion it was desirable to authorize the Geological Survey " to segregate lands of the public domain capable of irrigation, in the sections of the United States " S. Ex. Doc. No. 134, 50th Cong., 1st sess., 2.
Сторінка 1 - Ibid., p. 4. where irrigation is required, from other lands, and to lay out suitable places to be reserved for reservoirs and rights of way for ditches and canals for the purposes of irrigation...
Сторінка 28 - Again, it might be wise to temporarily suspend or possibly repeal the . . . pre-emption laws, desert land laws, and the timber-culture laws, in their application to the arid lands, and to let the homestead laws remain, to be improved from time to time as circumstances demand. With a degree of misgiving the Director begs permission to suggest as his own opinion that the best solution of the problem under the present circumstances is to withdraw all the lands of the arid region from 'sale, entry, settlement,...
Сторінка 2 - ... influence the Hinton report was to have for years to come, this fact would seem to give just cause to the belief that Mr. Marsh is to be considered the torchbearer of a long continuing line of visionary, but not impractical, idealists. communication directed to the Senate on April 3, 1888 by stating : It is believed to be possible, by an undertaking on a scale of adequate grandeur, to seize the waters of the Missouri at a proper distance from its source and the springs of its tributaries, and...

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