WILL IT PASS? 



REPRESENTATIVE SHAPROTH INTRODUCED 

 THE FOLLOWING BILL; WHICH WAS RE- 

 FERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC 

 LANDS, AND ORDERED TO BE PRINTED. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House 

 of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled, that the 

 Geological Survey is hereby directed to 

 make accurate surveys of at least four prac- 

 tical reservoir sites and of the irrigating 

 ditches leading to the reser v o i r s and to 

 the public lands irrigated therefrom, 

 in each of the arid-land States of the Unit- 

 ed States, and estimate the coat of the con- 

 struction and completion of the same as 

 well as the quantity of water which can be 

 stored in each. 



SEC. 2. That the Director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey shall make a report to the 

 Secretary of the Interior as to each reser- 

 voir and irrigating ditch, showing the sur- 

 vey, cost of construction, quantity of pub- 

 lic land in such State which can be irrigat- 

 ed from such reservoir, and the location of 

 the said lands, as well as all other facts 

 relative to the practicability of the enter- 

 prise. 



SEC. 3. That upon the filing of such re- 

 port the Secretary of the Interior may, in 

 his discretion, withdraw from the public 

 entry the lands embraced within the reser- 

 voir sites at high water mark, and a strip 

 of ground fifty feet in width bordering on 

 the same, and the land within fifty feet on 

 each side of the center line of the irrigat- 

 ing ditches to be constructed in connec- 

 tion therewith, together with the public 

 lands which it is proposed to irrigate from 

 such reservoirs. 



SEC. 4. That upon the determination 

 by the Secretary of the Interior that the 

 reservoir and irrigation project is practi- 

 cal, he shall cause to be let upon proper 

 public notice contracts for the construc- 

 tion of the same: Provided, however, That 

 contracts for the construction and comple- 

 tion of reservoirs and the irrigating ditcher 

 connected therewith in any one State shall 

 not exceed the sum of one million dollars. 



SEC. 5. That the foil owing named 

 States shall be considered as arid-land 

 States within the meaning of this Act, to- 

 wit: California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho 

 Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Color- 

 ado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and. 

 North Dakota. 



SEC. 6. That the sum of thirteen mil- 

 lion dollars, or so much thereof as may be 

 necessary, be, and the same is hereby, ap- 

 propriated* out of any money in the Treas- 

 ury not otherwise appropriated, for the 

 purpose of carrying into effect the provis- 

 ions thereof. 



SEC. 7, That upon the completion of 

 each irrigation project the lands to be ir- 

 rigated thereby shall be subject to home- 

 stead entry after notice by the Secretary 

 of the Interior upon the condition that, in- 

 addition to the requirements of the home- 

 stead Act, the entryman, on the making 

 of a final proof of settlement, shall pay 

 to the Government the sum of two dollars 

 and fifty cents per acre and each entryman 

 shall be limited to the entry and settle- 

 ment of eighty acres. 



SEC. 8. That when the major part of 

 the land intended to be irrigated from 

 each reservoir has been duly located upon 

 as aforesaid, the management of the reset- 



