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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA, IRRIGATION 

 PROJECT. 



The Secretary of the Interior has issued the following 

 order for the purpose of relieving the present situation on 

 the Williston irrigation project, North Dakota, pending the 

 issue of public notice modifying or abrogating the notices 

 heretofore issued : 



(a) A stay of proceedings looking to the cancellation 

 of entries or water-right applications because of failure to 

 make payment will become effective as to all water-right 

 applications subject to public notices heretofore issued upon 

 the payment of $1.50 per acre on or before March 31, 1911, 

 for operation and maintenance, subject, however, to compli- 

 ance with the conditions of a public notice to be hereafter 

 issued, which will provide for an increased building charge. 

 Before the delivery of any water, an additional payment must 

 be made at the rate of $1.00 per acre-foot for operation and 



Upon failure to make payments as herein required on or 

 before March 31, 1911, the entry or water-right application, 

 or both as the case may be, which would otherwise be subject 

 to cancellation, will be promptly canceled without further 

 notice. 



The pumping barge will not be launched in 1911 until 

 the aggregate payments made to the United States for opera- 

 tion and maintenance for 1911 amount to $9,000. The ope- 

 ration of the pumps will be planned with a view to an 

 approximately uniform rate of delivery of water and for ade- 

 quate irrigation in the shortest practicable operating period. 



All applications for water-rights filed under the provi- 

 sions of the notices heretofore issued and for which the pay- 

 ment necessary to avoid cancellation shall have been made 

 on or before March 31, 1911, shall be continued in effect 

 under such prior notices ; and water-right applications may 

 be filed on or before March 31, 1911, under the provisions of 

 the public notices heretofore issued if accompanied by the 



This shows a ditch dug by the Avery Traction Steam Shovel. It is claimed for the outfit which performed this work that it is more 

 than a steam shovel, in other words it is a traction engine combined with the shovel. The same engine may be used by a rancher on a 

 combined cultivator, for hauling, plowing, belt-work, traction work, grading, driving stone crusher and pulling road grader. This engine 

 is made by the Avery Company, Peoria, 111. 



maintenance for all water delivered, payable in advance 

 as deliveries are requested. Such stay of proceedings shall 

 remain in effect until further announcement by means of 

 a public notice or otherwise, (b) Water will also be fur- 

 nished in the year 1911 to others upon the filing with the 

 project engineer of proper applications subject to the terms 

 of this order and to the payments and conditions herein 

 provided. No water will be furnished in any case unless 

 the holdings of the applicant for water shall have been 

 conformed to the farm unit shown on the approved farm 

 unit plats. 



payment required thereunder, and shall be entitled to con- 

 tinue under the terms thereof. 



The intent of this order is to permit all persons who 

 so desire to obtain the benefit of the former building charge 

 of $38.00 per acre by making the necessary payments on or be- 

 fore March 31, 1911, or by filing new water-right appli- 

 cations accompanied by the necessary payments on or be- 

 fore that date; and that all other persons under the project 

 who desire to be furnished with a water supply shall pay 

 the sums herein specified and be subject to the conditions 

 of such public notice as may be hereafter issued. 



