LAND RECLAMATION POLICIES IN THE UNITED STATES 
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the original charge. At no time would the payment made equal the 
interest due. 
These statements are based on the assumption that payments are 
made as they become due under existing law, and that payments 
begin when water is made available. In most cases water was 
supplied to many farmers for several years before payments began. 
The only farmers to whom the amount of the subsidy will be as 
small as that shown in the table, 146 or 136 per cent of the con- 
struction charge, will be those who come to a project after the charge 
has been announced, make application for water, and begin and 
continue payments according to the schedule laid down by the law. 
Table 4 shows, by projects, the years that elapsed between the 
time when water was first supplied to farmers and the time when 
payments on water rights began. 
Table 4. — Number of years during which tvater teas supplied to farmers under 
United States reclamation projects before payments of construction charges 
began. 
Project. 
Year in 
which 
water was 
first sup- 
plied by 
U. S. Rec- 
lamation 
Service. 1 
Year in 
which 
first pay- 
ment on 
construc- 
tion 
charges is 
reported. 2 
Number 
of years 
during 
which 
water was 
supplied 
before 
payments 
began. 
Salt River . 
1907 
1907 
1910 
1908 
1915 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1911 
1909 
190S 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1908 
1908 
1907 
1908 
1915 
1908 
1907 
1908 
1918 
1910 
1917 
1922 
1922 
1918 
1908 
1908 
1908 
11 
3 
Orland 
7 
14 
Grand Valley --- -- 
3 7 
12 
1 
Huntley .. . . . ... 


Milk River. 
'11 
Lower Yellowstone . .. .... 
1909 
1909 
1908 
1909 
1922 
1909 
1909 
1909 
1909 
1916 
1909 
1908 
1908 

North Platte... 
1 
2 
Carlsbad - . .. . 
2 
14 
Williston .. . _ 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
1 
1 

1 Taken from Twentieth Annual Report of U. S. Reclamation Service. 
2 Taken from Annual reports of U. S. Reclamation Service showing payments. 
3 Had not begun June 30, 1922. 
Table 4 shows that on four of the projects payments began as 
soon as water was delivered by the Keclamation Service; on eight 
of them payments began the next year after the first water was 
supplied. At the other extreme there are two projects on which 
payments had not begun in 1922, two on which payments did not 
begin until 14 years after the service began supplying water, on one 
other project they did not begin until 12 years, and on two others 
until 11 years, after water was first supplied. Table 5 shows the 
effect of postponement in beginning the collection of charges on the 
amount of the subsidy represented by relief from interest charges 
