CONSTUCTION OF STORAGE 

 RESERVOIR. 



The following bill was introduced in the House of Representatives 

 December 2, 1901. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Eepresentatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That all moneys received from 

 the sale or disposal of public lands in the states of California, Colo- 

 rado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, 

 Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, and in the 

 territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, be and are hereby 

 reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the treasury, 

 to be known as the "reclamation fund," to be used for the survey and 

 construction of reservoirs and other irrigation works for the reclama 

 tion of arid lands. 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized,, 

 for the purpose of reclaiming arid lands, to cause to be examined and 

 surveyed reservoir sites, tunnel sites for diversion of water, and irri- 

 gation canals connected therewith in said states and territories, and to 

 require reports as to the same, together with estimates of the cost of 

 construction thereof, and reports as to the quality and location of the 

 public lands which can be irrigated therefrom, as to all facts relative 

 to the practicability of each enterprise. 



Sec. 3. That upon the filing of such report the Secretary of the 

 Interior may, in his discretion, withdraw from public entry the lands 

 embraced within the reservoir sites at highwater mark and a strip of 

 ground one hundred feet in width bordering on the same, and at the 

 base of the dams thereof, and the land within fifty feet on each side of 

 the center line of the irrigating ditches and tunnels, together with the 

 public lands which it is proposed to irrigate therefrom. 



Sec. 4. That upon the determination by the Secretary of the In- 

 terior that the reservoir and irrigation project is practicable, he shall 

 cause to be let, upon proper notice, contracts for the construction of 

 the same in whole or in part, payments to be made out of the reelama- 

 tion fund. 



Sec. 5. That upon the completion of each irrigation project the 

 lands to be irrigated thereby shall be subject to homestead entry after 

 notice by the Secretary of the Interior, upon the condition that, in ad- 

 dition to the requirements of the homestead act, the entryman, on the 

 making of final proof of settlement, shall pay to the government the 

 sum of five dollars per acre, and each entryman shall be limited to the 

 entry and settlement of not exceeding eighty acres, 



