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REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



and cultivated for limited periods. Such temporar}^ occupancy, how- 

 ever, does not prevent any other person entering such lands as pre- 

 scribed by law. 



Builders of projects are given the right to so construct or enlarge 

 irrigation works as to permit the water to be used for power pur- 

 poses, and are granted the right to use any surplus water for develop- 

 ing jDower, the income from which belongs to the builder for all time. 



The " office and clerical expenses " of the board are made a charge 

 against all projects, being apportioned at the end of ejch year among 

 the various districts and projects receiving benefit. 



Development in Montana under the Carey Act has been confined 

 almost wholly to the period since the passage of the 1905 law. Prior 

 to that time the efforts of the old arid land gi'ant commission, mis- 

 directed as they were, resulted in deplorable failure, and it would have 

 been better had such operations never been undertaken. Only three 

 of the thirteen successful projects initiated in the past six years are 

 in stages of actual development. The remaining ten are in prelim- 

 inary stages, and as yet no construction wx-rk has been begun on them. 

 It is a noticeable fact that seven of the thirteen projects are to rely 

 upon storage reservoirs to insure an adequate water supply. 



The following summary and table present figures on Carey Act 

 operations in Montana from their beginning to the present : 



SUMMARY. 



Total area granted to State acres__ 1,000.000 



Total area of segregations do 411,326 



Area of reclaimed land sold to settlers do 45,000 



Total area of reclaimed land do 70,000 



Number of projects being developed 13 



Carey Act projects in Montana, including segregations and apiiUcations for 



segregations now pending.^ 



List Nos. 



land 7 



2 and 3 



9 and 11 



5 and 6 



8 



12 and 14 



10 



13 



15 



16 



18 



21 



22 



Company promoting projects. 



Billings Land & Irrigation Co. (approved) 



Glass-Lindsay Land Co. (approved) 



Glass-Lindsay Land Co. (unapproved) 



Great Falls Land & Irrigation ( o. (approved) 



Conrad Land & Water Co. (approved) 



Conrad Land & Water Co. (unapproved) 



Teton Co-Operative Reservoir C o. (unapproved) 



T. T. Black and F. H. Ray (unapproved) 



Withee, Cargill, and Edgefton et al. (unapproved) 



R. A. Carnochan et al. (unapp" ^ed) 



Red Rock Reser\'oir & Irrigation Co. (unapproved) 



MacGinnis, Hilger et al. (unapproved) 



n. R. Albion et al. (unapproved) 



Total acreage 



1 Biennial Report, 1909-1910, Carey Act Land Board, State of Montana. 



Segrega- 

 tions. 



Acres. 

 15,378.11 

 19,098.51 

 13.549.32 

 30,536.42 

 70,133.56 

 32, 764. 71 

 134,987.42 

 20,308.87 



5, 142. 30 

 22, 285. 96 



7,885.52 

 13,611.20 

 19,644.97 



411,326.87 



