THE IRKIGATION AGE. 



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Idaho at 94 cents per barrel, both f. o. b. c;.-s at Portland, 

 Colo. 



To the Western Portland Cement Company, Yankton, 

 S. D., 12,000 barrels f. o. b. cars at Belle Fourche, at $2.18. 



To the Universal Portland Cement Company, Chicago, 

 3,000 barrels for Montana and North Dakota projects, at 95 

 cents f. o. b. cars at South Chicago. 



To the lola Portland Cement Company, lola, Kas., 63,- 

 000 barrels at SO cents per barrel f. o. b. cars, lola; 30,000 

 barrels being for the Shoshone project, Wyoming, and 33,000 

 barrels for the projects in the Southern Division, embracing 

 Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and southern Califor- 

 nia. 



The Secretary of the Interior has approved an increase 

 in the price asked for lands of the Northwestern Improve- 

 ment Company under the Lower Yellowstone irrigation 

 project, Montana-North Dakota, to $3 per acre. 



On April 5, 1905, this company, which owns certain 

 lands under the Lower Yellowstone project, said lands hav- 

 ing been previously granted by the United States to the 

 Northern Pacific Railway Company, declared in a letter to 

 the Secretary of the Interior that it would freely co'oper- 

 ate with the secretary in carrying out the plans of the Rec- 

 lamation Service so far as the disposition of lands owned 

 by it was concerned and in other matters over which it had 

 control, and that it would offer said lands for sale at $2.50 

 per acre. 



Since that time the company has transferred to the 

 United States certain canal rights of way which considerably 

 decreased its acreage, and in order to coyer this loss, taxes, 

 losses by erosion, etc., the company will be permitted to 

 make a charge of $3 per acre. Railroad lands which lie 

 outside the project and which are not irrigable are selling 

 today for $12 an acre. 



After several conferences with Mr. Richard Shore 

 Smith, attorney representing the Klamath Water Users' 

 Association, Secretary Garfield has decided that he can 

 authorize no change in the method of repayment of the 

 construction charges for building to works. 



As the matter now stands, the portion of the instalment 

 which cover's the charge for operation and maintenance for 

 1909, namely, 75 cents per acre, must be paid on or before 

 May 1, 1909, and no water will be furnished until this por- 

 tion of the charge is paid. That portion, however, which 

 is to be credited to building, namely, $3 per acre, while 

 it is due and payable on or before May 1, 1909, may re- 

 main as a charge against the land without penalty for de- 

 fault until May 1, 1910. Thus the water users who make 

 application for water rights at $30 per acre before June 15, 



1909, may have water supplied on payment of 75 cents per 

 acre, and no further payment need be made until May 1, 



1910. The water users may then discharge the portion of 

 the installment due on account of the building charge from 

 the proceeds of the season's irrigation. 



(Continued en page 153.) 



CAREY ACT LANDS SURROUND SHOSHONE, 

 IDAHO. 



BY H. A. THOMAS. 



To the masses the term "Carey Act" signifies but 

 little. To the vast industrial army, however, who have 

 availed themselves of its benefits in that spacious re- 

 claimed empire of sunny southern Idaho, where "irri- 

 gation is king," it represents a home and independence 

 for themselves and a heritage for posterity. 



The "Carey Act'' had its origin in a resolution 

 drafted by Judge Carey of Wyoming. This bill was 

 enacted into a law by Congress August 18, 1894. The 

 legislature of the state of Idaho, at its third session in 

 1899, supplemented this act by a statute that provided 

 for the acceptance from the United States government 

 of the grants of arid lands and for their reclamation, 

 disposal and occupation. Idaho is the first state to 

 have availed herself of the opportunity of reclaiming 

 the entire original grant consisting of T,000,000 acres, 

 and as a result of the enterprise exhibited by her peo- 



ple, an additional 2,000,000 acres was readily granted 

 bv Congress in 1908 to be reclaimed under the pro- 

 visions of this beneficent act. 



The real object of the law is to enable persons of 

 moderate means to secure a farm and a home on easy, 

 annual installments, which may cover a period of ten 

 years. Throughout the process of construction of the 

 irrigation works, and during all sales of Carey Act 

 lands, and in fact until such time as the irrigation 

 works have been turned over to the settlers, the State 

 Land Board supervises and regulates all matters of 

 interest to the settler. The act provides that any citi- 

 zen of the United States over the age of twenty-one 

 (excepting married women) may file on land to the 

 extent of 160 acres, or any legal subdivision, regardless 

 of homestead, desert, timber or other government rights 

 already exhausted. A portion of your Carey right may 

 be used on one segregation in the state and another 

 portion under a different project. Filing on less than 

 160 acres does not exhaust your right. When an entry 

 is made, the entryman may, if he so desires, begin im- 

 proving his land, and if he has one-eighth of his entry 

 under cultivation; that is, seeded and ready for irriga- 

 tion when the water is ready for delivery, and has ac- 

 tually irrigated one-eighth of the whole tract, he may 

 at once publish his notice to make final proof, which is 

 done by publishing in some newspaper published in the 

 county where the land is situated during the four weeks 

 preceding 1 the date set for making final proof, and dur- 

 ing all of this time he must reside on the land, and, if 

 married, he must establish his home with his family. 

 In this way title can be secured with only about thirty 

 days' residence. After final proof, residence on the land 

 is no longer required to hold title, because upon com- 

 pletion of final proof the state issues to the entryman a 

 patent to the land. However, residence must be es- 

 tablished within six months after water is available, and 

 such residence maintained until final proof is com- 

 pleted, which can be done in thirty days or take the 

 full limit of three years. 



This act also permits one person to file upon land 

 for another by proxy, so that by giving a power of at- 

 torney you may secure land through an agent or friend, 

 and your actual presence on the land will not be re- 

 quired until water is ready for delivery, or within six 

 months thereafter. As the land can be prepared and 

 sown to crop by an employe, a person living in the east 

 can come west at irrigating season and obtain title in a 

 month or six weeks' time. 



Practically all the Carey Act land of this state is 

 situated in the southern portion. The first opening of 

 importance, comprising 240,000 acres in the Twin 

 Falls segregation, occurred in 1905. The first disposal 

 of land under this act in Lincoln county consisted of 

 30,000 acres and was in 1907 at Milner. In November 

 of the same vear the North Side segregation of 150,000 

 acres was put on the market, and is now entirely occu- 

 pied; subsequent to this opening 80,000 acres, includ- 

 ing part of the Bier Wood river and Clover Creek proj- 

 ects, have been sold. Forty thousand acres just north 

 and west of Shoshone is at present on the market, and 

 on June 8. 1909, 50,000 acres of choice land bordering 

 on the eastern limits of Shoshone will be disposed of by 

 drawing. 



The various Carev Act segregations, the Minidoka 

 Government project of 80.000 acres, together with the 

 lands under private ownership, give Lincoln county, of 



