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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



Payments As a sample of the re- 

 c"t L,'"^T quirements in connection 

 with the opening of new 

 land to settlement, by the Reclamation 

 Service, and as particular information 

 in regard to the Garden City project, 

 in westei-n Kansas, the following pub- 

 lic notice of the opening of the Garden 

 City project is given. This notice was 

 issued about March 14th by the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior : 



Water will be furnished from the 

 Garden City project in Kansas under 

 the provisions of the Reclamation Act 

 in the irrigation season of 1908 for 

 the irrigable land shown upon plats of 

 Townships 23 and 24 South, Ranges 

 32, 33 and 34 West, 6th principal me- 

 ridian, approved March 2, 1908, by the 

 Secretary of the Interior, and on file 

 in the local land office at Dodge City, 

 Kansas. 



The limit of areas for which water 

 right application may be made, for 

 lands in private ownership, shall be 

 160 acres of irrigable land for each 

 land owner. 



The charges which shall be made 

 per acre of irrigable land which can 

 be irrigated by the water? from the 

 said irrigation project are in two 

 parts, as follows : 



1. The building of the irrigation 

 system, $35 per acre of irrigable land, 

 payable in not less than five nor more 

 than ten annual instalments, each not 

 less than $3.50 per acre. 



2. For operation and maintenance, 

 which will, as soon as data are avail- 

 able, be fixed in proportion to the 

 amount of water used, with a mini- 

 mum charge per irrigable acre whether 

 water is used thereon or not. The 

 operation and maintenance charges 

 for the irrigation season of 1908, and 

 until further notice, will be $2.75 per 

 acre of irrigable land, whether water 

 is used thereon or not, and I hereby es- 

 tablish the regulation that no water 

 will be furnished in any year until the 

 portion of the installment for opera- 

 tion and maintenance for the preced- 

 ing years have been paid. This will 

 apply to the irrigation season of 1909, 

 as to these charges for 1908. 



The first instalment on account of 

 said charges, for all irrigable areas 

 shown on these plats, whether or not 

 water right application is made there- 

 for or water is used thereon, shall be 

 due at the local land office at Dodge 

 City, Kansas, on December i, 1908. 



The portion of the instalment for 

 the building charge for subsequent 

 years shall be due on December i of 

 each year at the same place, and until 

 further notice the portion for opera- 

 tion and maintenance, $2.75 per acre 

 of irrigable land per annum, shall be 

 due at the same time and place. 



The charges herein provided for 

 may, for the convenience of applicants, 

 be paid to and received by the Special 

 Fiscal Agent of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service at Garden City, Kansas, for 

 transmission to the Receiver of the U. 

 S. Land Office at Dodge City, Kansas, 

 on or before the dates specified herein 

 for payments at the local land office. 



Water Users The charges for land 

 Themselves ^^^^ ^^^gj. j^ ^^e Sho- 



WiU Manage , • ^ \-kt 



shone project, Wyom- 

 ing, were stated in last month's issue. 

 The Garland main canal, with a bot- 

 tom width of forty feet, is practically 

 done, as are the lateral canals, so that 

 every settler will find an abundant 

 supply of water delivered at the high- 

 est point of his farm. It is believed 

 that this is the first irrigation system 

 of such magnitude ever constructed 

 where the farmer will have to go to no 

 expense whatever to get the water on 

 his land. It is proposed to arrange an 

 organization of water users for each 

 lateral, whereby they will operate the 

 lateral and distributary canals them- 

 selves, thus reducing the cost of ad- 

 ministration, the Government doing 

 only the wholesale distribution and ad- 

 ministration. 



Soil and 

 Weather 



The drainage of these 

 lands is unusually per- 

 fect. The surface soil 

 is underlaid with a deep stratum of 

 gravel, which can be depended on to 

 carry off excess moisture and prevent 

 waterlogging. The surface soil, how- 



