68 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION February 



Nesson, Williston, and Buford-Tren- Leasburg diversion dam and canals in 



ton projects, upon the following con- connection with the Rio Grande pro- 



ditions: ject. New Mexico and Texas, on the 



First : That the land owners pledge condition that the return of said sum 



themselves in the usual way through be guaranteed by the land owners. The 



the water users' association, to return prescribed conditions of repayment in 



the cost to the Reclamation Fund. two years having been found impossi- 



Second : That the holdings of pri- ble of fulfillment by the owners of 



vate lands in excess of 160 acres for lands, the Secretary has rescinded 



which water is to be furnished be dis- this requirement and directed that the 



posed of in tracts not exceeding 80 usual form of contract be entered into 



acres of irrigable land. with the water users' associations 



Third : That the owners of irrigable guaranteeing the return to the govern- 

 lands in excess of 160 acres be re- ment of all expenditures made under 

 quired to dispose of them in the man- the terms of the Reclamation Act, 

 ner provided by the general form of which allows for ten equal annual pay- 

 contract for this purpose and approved ments. 



by the department. The The present status of the 



mi _, , , T Reclamation Reclamation Fund, com- 



Kl.math J he Secretary of the In- Fund Qf ^ m re _ 



Project t eri o r has authorized the ceived from sales of bHc knds in 



1 tt o -n Supervising Engineer of certain states and territories, is shown 



the U. S. Reclamation Service, at Los j n the fo]lowi table . 

 Angeles, California, to receive sealed Rec]amation 



proposals for furnishing from 8.OOO State or Territory fund, by States, Total Recla- 



1 1 '( t ^i 1 received in mation fund. 



to 10,000 barrels of Portland cement, 1905. 



for use in connection with the Kla- Arizona $30,368.46 $216,772.32 



math irrigation project, Oregon and California 498,488.37 2,470,396.58 



California. Colorado 318,546.14 1,909.713.70 



Particulars may be obtained by ap- Idaho 383,221.74 2,028,731.29 



plication to the Chief Engineer of the Kansas 30,423.91 128,273.49 



Reclamation Service at Washington, Montana 349,529.75 2,098,532.65 



D. C, or to the office of Supervising Nebraska 179,138.10 657,109.52 



Engineer J. B. Lippincott, 1 108 Union Nevada 11,167.70 59,321.11 



Trust Building, Los Angeles, Calif or- New Mexico 133,243.57 533,445.83 



nia. North Dakota... 807,792.48 4213,892.62 



Pa , t . m, , ,. , ., Oklahoma 490,629.78 3,042.767.11 



SET Payette-BoiTe reclama rCS " 6 '' 79739 *"*" 



Project -rayette-tfoise reciama- South Dakota 217,688.34 960,468.94 



tion project will begin Utah 77,662.81 380,013.84 



at a very early date At the present Washington .... 451,773-36 3,187,136.34 



time the Secretary of the Interior is Wyoming 193,04549 1,070,299.37 



advertising for bids for 14,000 barrels , 



of Portland cement, to be delivered f. Total $4,805,515.39 $27,818,351.85 



o. b. cars at stations within a radius 



of twentv-five miles from Nampa. w^k-*? " Many P rominent writers 



Idaho. These bids will be received by improvement in the Mississi PPi valle y 

 the Supervising Engineer at Boise, seem quite unable to un- 



Idaho, until 2 o'clock, March 9, 1906. derstand the difference between the 



appropriations made for the reclaim- 

 Reclamation in On December 2, 1905, ing of arid lands and those for the im- 

 ancTTexas 00 the . Secretary of the In- provement of rivers and harbors, 

 terior allotted the sum of There is a disposition to criticise Con- 

 5200,000 from the Reclamation Fund gress for permitting the expenditure 

 for the immediate construction of the of millions in making habitable and 



