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sites, or for rights of way. These lands will not be sub- 

 ject to entry, filing or selection under the public land 

 laws, however, until ninety days after notice by such 

 publication as may be prescribed by the Commissioner 

 of the General Land Office. 



The Secretary of the, Interior has approved the 

 contract on behalf of the United States with the Illinois 

 Steel Company, of Chicago, 111., for supplying 14,000 

 barrels of Portland cement for the Payette-Boise project, 

 Idaho. The price of the cement is $1.60 net per barrel, 

 delivered f. o. b. cars at the works of the Illinois Steel 

 Company, Chicago. 



The Secretary of the Interior recently restored to 

 the public domain the X. E. i/ 2 > Sec. 20, T. 25 N., R. 

 63 W., Cheyenne land district, Wyoming. This land is 

 not subject to entry, filing or selection under the public 

 land laws until ninety days after notice by such publica- 

 tion as the Commissioner of the General Land Office 

 may prescribe. 



The Secretary of the Interior has approved an 

 agreement dated October 16, 1905, and a supplemental 

 agreement dated December 26, 1905, with C. S. Moore 

 and wife and R. S. Moore and wife, for the transfer 

 to the United States for a nominal consideration, certain 

 valuable irrigation works, water rights and riparian 

 rights owned by the Moores along the west bank of and 

 in connection with Link River, Ore. The United States 

 is to deliver to the grantors 205 second feet of water 

 which they now claim, for the generation of power, with 

 the right to substitute therefor equivalent power, and 

 to relieve the grantors of any cost of new construction 

 except $50 per annum as their proportionate cost of 

 maintenance and operation. The United States is to 

 provide in any dam which may be constructed across 

 Link River a suitable gate through which logs and 

 lumber may be floated, and further assumes the exist- 

 ing obligations of the grantors for delivery of water for 

 the irrigation of certain lots in the town of West 

 Klamath. 



The Secretary of the Interior has restored to set- 

 tlement the vacant, unappropriated public lands not 

 otherwise reserved, in a tract consisting of about 800,- 

 000 acres in western Montana, which was withdrawn in 

 connection with the proposed Cabinet Forest Reserve. 

 A small part of the area is included in the Flathead 

 Indian Reservation. The lands thus restored will not 

 be subject to entry, filing or selection until ninety days 

 after notice by such publication as may be prescribed 

 by the Department. 



The Secretary of the Interior recently approved a 

 contract on behalf of the United States with Messrs. 

 Page & Brintton, of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the con- 

 struction and completion of the work provided for in 

 schedules 2 and 3, main canal, Payette-Boise project, 

 Idaho. The contract calls for the excavation of 583,000 

 cubic yards of material. The bid for both schedules was 

 $135,900. 



with headquarters at Utica, N. Y., will sever his con- 

 nection with the United States Geological Survey on 

 June 1, in order to study special hydraulic problems 

 connected with the New York barge canal. 



The Secretary of the Interior today temporarily 

 withdrew, from any form of disposition whatever, ap- 

 proximately 50,000 acres of land situated in townships 

 1, 2 and 3 N., Rs. 28 and 29 E., within the Crow In- 

 dian Reservation, Montana, and lying under the pro- 

 posed canals of the Reclamation Service in the Huntley 

 project. The absolute withdrawal was recommended 

 because the location of necessary pumping plants and 

 other irrigation works had not yet been definitely fixed. 



Authority has been granted to the Reclamation 

 Service to purchase under competitive bids at a cost not 

 to exceed $4,500, the necessary sand crushing machinery 

 to be used in the construction of the Klamath project, 

 California and Oregon. 



Mr. Robert E. Norton, for several years in charge 

 of hydrography in the eastern part of the United States, 



The Secretary of the Interior has awarded a con- 

 tract to E. A. Hess, of Lyons, Iowa, for the construction 

 of a telephone system in connection with the Strawberry 

 Valley irrigation project, Utah. The work involves 

 thirty-five miles of pole line and four telephone sta- 

 tions, the line to extend from Spanish Fork to the dam 

 site. According to the terms of the contract the work 

 is to be begun within twenty days after notice of the 

 signature of the contract by the Secretary of the I- 

 terior and completed on or before the expiration of 

 ninety days thereafter. Six bids were received, that of 

 Mr. Hess being $635.00. 



The Secretary of the Interior has advised the Yel- 

 lowstone Park Railroad Company, which is constructing 

 a railway in eastern Idaho, that its application for right 

 of way across Flat Rock reservoir site will be approved, 

 providing it will agree upon demand of the Secretary of 

 the Interior, at its own cost and expense, and without 

 claim for compensation, reimbursement, or damage, to 

 remove and abandon or otherwise change the location 

 of so much of the line proposed to be constructed across 

 this site as to avoid interfering with the utilization of 

 the reservoir site for water storage. 



Mississippi and eastern Louisiana are about to re- 

 ceive the attention of the Geological Survey In response 

 to numerous requests from many parts of this drainage 

 area the Hydrographic branch will establish at once a 

 number of river stations for the purpose of collecting 

 data in connection with the development of water power 

 and the irrigation of truck farms. 



Mr. W. E. Hall, a representative of the Hydro- 

 graphic Branch, has recently made reconnaissance to 

 locate suitable points for obtaining reliable data con- 

 cerning the flow of several streams in this section. As 

 a result of these reconnaissances gauging stations will be 

 established at once on Tallahatchie River near Bates- 

 ville, on Yalobusha river, near Grenada in northern Mis- 

 sissippi, on Homochitto river, near Rosetta in south- 

 western Mississippi, and on Tangipahoa River, near 

 Amite and on Bogue Chitto, near Warnerton in eastern 

 Louisiana. The establishment of additional stations 

 will depend upon the finding of suitable points and upon 

 the availability of funds to carry on the work. 



