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body of water, or living spring, are not subject to 

 entry under the desert land law until the clearest 

 proof of their desert character is furnished. 



Second. Lands which will produce native grasses 

 sufficient in quantity, if unfed by grazing animals, to 

 make an ordinary crop of hay in usual seasons, are 

 not desert lands. 



Third. Lands which will produce an agricultural 

 crop of any kind, in amount to make the cultivation 

 reasonably remunerative, are not desert lands. 



Fourth. Lands containing sufficient moisture to 

 produce a natural growth of trees are not to be classed 

 as desert lands. 



6. The map should be accompanied by a list in 

 triplicate of the lands selected, designated by legal 

 subdivisions. When a township has not been subdi- 

 vided, but has had its exteriors surveyed, the whole 

 township may be selected, but no patent can issue 

 thereon until the land has been surveyed. This list 

 should be dated and verified by a certificate of the 

 selecting agent, form 3, page 7. The party appear- 

 ing as agent of the State must file with the register 

 and receiver written and satisfactory evidence, under 

 seal, of his authority to act in the premises. 



7. The lists must be carefully and critically exam- 

 ined by the register and receiver, and their accuracy 

 tested by the plats and records of their office. When 

 so examined and found correct in all respects they 

 will so certify at the foot of each list, form 4, page 8, 

 and number the lists in consecutive order, beginning 

 with No. 1. The register will thereupon post the se- 

 lections in ink in the tract book after the following 

 manner. 



"Selected , 18, by A. B., agent for the State 



of , as desert land, act of August 18, 1894, list 



No. ," and on the plats he will mark the tracts 



so selected "State desert land selection.'' After the 

 selections are properly posted and marked on the 



records, the lists, papers and maps will be transmit- 

 ted to this office accompanied by the evidence of the 

 agent's appointment. It is required that clear lists 

 of approvals shall in every case be made out by the 

 selecting agents, if after the above examination one 

 or more tracts have been rejected, showing clearly 

 and without erasure the tracts to which the register 

 is prepared to certify, also the aggregate area prop- 

 erly footed in the columns and set forth in the cer- 

 tificate. 



For rejected selections a new application and a 

 new list will be required, upon which the register will 

 note opposite each tract the objections appearing on 

 the records, and indorse thereon his reasons in full 

 for refusing to certify the same. The agent will be 

 allowed to appeal in the manner provided for in the 

 Rules of Practice. Lists containing erasures received 

 at this office will not be filed, but will be returned for 

 perfection. Form of title page to be prefixed to the 

 lists of selections will be found on page 8, marked A. 

 On the map of lands selected the register will mark 

 rejected such tracts as he has rejected on the lists. 



8. To the list of selections must be added a con- 

 tract of form 5, page 8, signed by the State agent 

 authorized to make such contract. 



9. When the canals or reservoirs required by the 

 plan of irrigation cross public land not selected by 

 the State, an application for right of way over such 

 lands under sections 18 to 21, act of March 3, 1891 

 (26 Stat., 1095), should be filed separately, in accord- 

 ance with the regulations of February 20, 1894. 



EDWARD A. BOWERS, 



Acting Commissioner. 

 Approved November 22, 1894. 



HOKE SMITH, 

 Secretary of the Interior. 



[The official publication contains blank forms as 

 above referred to.J 



THE IRRIGATION ENGINEER'S ANNUAL. 



nPHE American Society of Irrigation Engineers has 

 just published its first Annual, being the volume 

 for 1892-93. 



It contains lists of officers for 1891-92 and 1893-94, 

 the constitution and by-laws, and alphabetical and 

 geographical lists of members of the society. An 

 account of the organization of the society prefaces 

 the papers appearing in the book. 



The first article is a paper by Samuel Fortier, Pro- 

 fessor of Engineering, Agricultural College, Logan, 

 Utah. This is on " Wooden Stave Pipe," giving 

 descriptions of the pipes devised by A. V. Miller, of 

 Salt Lake City, and by G. P. Allen and Chas. Owelle, 

 both of Denver. These are illustrated. Formula for 

 size and spacing of bands, estimates of cost, and 

 specifications for material and construction are in- 

 cluded in this paper, which is on a subject of general 

 interest. 



W. C. Parmley, now Assistant City Engineer of 

 Peoria, 111., follows with a paper on " Continuously 

 Riveted Steel Pipe.' 1 This makes suggestions for 

 specifications as to material, manufacture, etc., with 

 formula for spacing rivets and other items of inter- 

 est. Mr. Parmley has also " Notes on Sewers in Wet 

 Trenches," containing considerable matter of value. 



Hon. Ed. F. Hobart presents a paper on "A 



Reservoir at Santa FC", N. M., 1 ' illustrated. This 

 deals with the handling of flood water, with washing 

 out silt from the bottom of the reservoir, and, 

 among other matters, that of using a herd of goats to 

 puddle the earthen dam. 



Herbert I. Reid, City Engineer, Colorado Springs, 

 and Norval W. Wall, City Engineer, Trinidad, Colo., 

 each have papers on the disposal of sewage by irriga- 

 tion at their respective towns (illustrated). These 

 should be of value to towns and cities in the arid 

 region. 



Two papers on "Topographic Methods' 1 follow: 

 That of the " U. S. Geological Survey," by Arthur P. 

 Davis, Los Angeles, connected with the survey; and 

 " The Application of the Plane Table to Irrigation 

 Surveys," by J. B. Lippincott, C. E., Redlands, Cal., 

 the last being illustrated. 



Henry P. Bell, late of Valparaiso, Chile, but now of 

 Victoria, B. C., has a paper entitled " Random Notes 

 on the Survey and Construction of Irrigation Canals." 

 This gives an account of his methods in preliminary 

 and location surveys; and also contains an account 

 of a siphon pipe crossing a stream and ravine about 

 1,000 feet wide at top and extreme depth of some 

 350 feet. The pipe in this case is wooden stave, 

 wire wound, bedded in concrete on the slopes of the 



