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public domain and will be subject to settle- 

 ment on and after June 3, 1909, but will not 

 be subject to entry, filing, or selection until 

 July 3, 1909. No person will be permitted 

 to gain or exercise any right whatever under 

 any settlement or occupation begun after 

 February 26, 1909, and prior to June 3, 1909, 

 all such settlement or occupation being for- 

 bidden. These lands lie in townships I, 2, 

 and 3 N., R. i and 2 W., Gila and Salt 

 River Meridian. 



In addition to the area thus restored, about 

 184,000 acres which were withdrawn under 

 the same project from any form of dispo- 

 sition except homestead entry, have been re- 

 stored subject to settlement and entry on 

 the same dates. Settlement and occupation 

 on this tract between January 28, 1909, and 

 June 3, 1909, are forbidden. These lands lie 

 in townships 4 to 7 N., R. i to 3 E., Gila 

 and Salt River Meridian. 



Regulations Applying to Government 

 Irrigated Lands 



The Secretary of the Interior has just 

 issued the following regulations, which are 

 of importance to settlers on the Reclama- 

 tion Service projects: 



"i. Reclamation of lands entered sub- 

 ject to the provisions of the Reclamation 

 Act. To establish compliance with the clause 

 of the Reclamation Act that requires recla- 

 mation of at least one-half of the irrigable 

 area of an entry made subject to the pro- 

 visions of the act, entrymen will be required 

 to make proof showing that the land has 

 been cleared of sagebrush or other incum- 

 brance and leveled, that sufficient laterals 

 have been constructed to provide for the ir- 

 rigation of the required area, that the land 

 has been put in proper condition and has 

 been watered and cultivated, and that at least 

 one satisfactory crop has been raised thereon. 



"2. Reclamation of lands in private own- 

 ership. The express purpose of the Rec- 

 lamation Act is to secure the reclamation of 

 arid or semi-arid lands and to render them 

 productive, and Section 8 declares that the 

 right to the use of water acquired under 

 this act shall be appurtenant to the land ir- 

 rigated, and that beneficial use shall be the 

 basis, the measure and the limit of the 

 right. There can be no beneficial use of 

 water for irrigation until it is actually ap- 

 plied to reclamation of the land. The final 

 and only conclusive test of reclamation is 

 production. This does not necessarily mean 

 the maturing of a crop, but does mean the 

 securing of actual growth of a crop. The 

 requirement as to reclamation imposed upon 

 lands under homestead entries shall there- 

 fore be imposed likewise upon lands in pri- 

 vate ownership, namely, that the landowner 

 shall reclaim at least one-half of the total 

 irrigable area of his land for agricultural 

 purposes, and no right to the use of water 

 for such lands shall permanently attach until 

 such reclamation has been shown. 



"3. Delinquency. Under Section 5 of the 

 Reclamation Act, 'A failure to make any 

 two payments when due shall render the 

 entry subject to cancellation with the for- 

 feiture of all rights under this act, as well 

 as of any moneys already paid thereon.' 

 This provision evidently states tke rule to 

 govern all who receive water under any 

 project, and accordingly a failure on the 

 part of any water-right applicant to make 

 any two payments when due shall render 

 his water-right application subject to can- 

 cellation with the forfeiture of all rights 

 under the Reclamation A'ct, as well as of 

 any moneys already paid to or for the use 

 of the United States upon any water right 

 sought to be acquired under said act. In 

 the case of one who has made homestead 

 entry subject to the terms of the Reclama- 

 tion Act the entry shall be subject to can- 

 cellation in case of such delinquency in pay- 

 ment, whether or not water-right application 

 has been made by him. 



"4. Operation of sub-laterals. The con- 

 trol of operation of all sub-laterals con- 

 structed or acquired in connection with 

 projects under the Reclamation Act is re- 

 tained by the Secretary of the Interior to 

 such extent as may be considered neces- 

 sary or reasonable to assure to the water 

 users served therefrom the full use of the 

 water to which they are entitled." 



Mrs, Fairbanks for Conservation 



The following interesting correspondence 

 passed between Mrs. Lydia Adams-Williams, 

 First Vice-president of the Woman's Na- 

 tional Rivers and Harbors Congress, and 

 Mrs. Cornelia C. Fairbanks, wife of Charles 

 Warren Fairbanks, late Vice-president of the 

 United States: 



"Atlantic Building, 

 'Washington, D. C, Feb. 28, 1909. 

 "Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



"My dear Mrs. Fairbanks: Mrs. Hoyle 

 Tomkies, President of the Woman's Na- 

 tional Rivers and Harbors Congress, has 

 suggested that I call upon you to ask you 

 to accept the office of Second Vice-president 

 of the Woman's National Rivers and Har- 

 bors Congress. 



'The Congress was organized at Shreve- 

 port, La., June 29, 1908, at the instance of 

 Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, President of the 

 National Rivers and Harbors Congress, with 

 seven members ; at the time of the first bi- 

 ennial meeting, held in Washington last De- 

 cember, the Congress had grown to a strength 

 of 1,500. Its strength is, perhaps, double 

 that at the present time. 



'The objects of the Congress are the 

 preservation of the forests, the development 

 of the waterways and harbors, and the con- 

 servation of the natural resources of the 

 Nation. 



"In the face of the almost insurmount- 

 able obstacles placed in the way of conserv- 



