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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE CAREY ACT 



How to Acquire Title to Public Lands Under 

 The Act. 



A Comprehensive Survey of the Regulations in 

 Force in the Various States. 



Copyrighted, 1910, by E. F. Bohm. 



(Concluded.) 

 FEDERAL REGULATIONS. 



1. The states are allowed 10 years from the date of 

 the approval of their application for segregation, to com- 

 plete the reclamation of the lands. The Secretary of the 

 Interior, may, at his discretion, extend this time for a 

 further period of not to exceed five years. 



2. The lands selected must be desert lands as denned 

 by the acts of March 3, 1877, and March 3, 1891, and the 



Department of the Interior to judge of the practicability 

 of the plan. 



Upon the filing of the map by the state, showing the 

 lands selected and the plan of irrigation such lands will 

 be withheld from other disposal until final action is had 

 thereon by the Secretary of the Interior. 



If such final action be a disapproval of the map and 

 plan the lands selected, shall, without further order, be 

 restored to the public domain. (See regulations under 

 act of March 15, 1910, below.) 



4, 5, 6, 7, 9. Regulations governing subject of maps, 

 field notes, lists of lands and contracts. 



8. Regulations governing rights of way over public 

 lands. 



10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Regulations governing 

 the state's application for patent and their disposal by the 

 Department of the Interior. 



REGULATIONS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO AMEND- 

 MENT OF MARCH 15, 1910. 



The state official will be required to file in the local 

 land office within which the lands lie an application there- 

 fore accompanied by an exhibit and statements as speci- 

 fied in regulation 3. 



Salmon River Irrigation Dam. View Looking North Showing Up-Stream Side of Structure. 



term "Desert Lands" excludes lands which produce native 

 grasses sufficient in quantity to make a crop of hay in 

 usual seasons; lands which will produce an agricultural 

 crop of any kind in amount sufficient to make the cultiva- 

 tion reasonably remunerative, and lands which will sup- 

 port a natural growth of trees. 



Lands occupied by bona-fide settlers, and lands con- 

 taining valuable deposits of coal Or other minerals are not 

 subject to selection. 



3. Before the application of any state is allowed, or 

 any contract is executed, or any segregation of land is 

 ordered, the state must file a map of the land selected, 

 which shall exhibit a plan showing the mode of contem- 

 plated irrigation and the source of the water, and must 

 submit data showing that the proposed plan will be suf- 

 ficient thoroughly to irrigate and reclaim the land and to 

 prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops, for which 

 purpose a statement of the state engineer, showing the 

 amount of water available, is needed. The state must, also, 

 submit all further information necessary to enable the 



Upon the filing of such application the register will, 

 at once, note the same upon his records and, thereafter, 

 will reject all other applications for the lands, except 

 where such application may have been filed prior to the 

 date of the state's application. He will then, at once, trans- 

 fer the application to this office for further action, first 

 noting thereon the date of filing. 



Within three months after date of the state's applica- 

 tion in the local land office, the state must file a further 

 affidavit that the work of surveying and of laying out the 

 proposed irrigation system has actually begun and is being 

 energetically prosecuted. 



In event of default of such showing, the withdrawal of 

 the lands will be promptly revoked. All lands discovered 

 to be non-irrigible, for any reason, must be relieved from 

 withdrawal. 



"FORMS" PRESCRIBED BY FEDERAL REGULA- 

 TIONS. 



Form 1. Affidavit of engineer who prepared the map 

 and plan of irrigation. 







