This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...amount of fees paid to local land offices, and the 5 per cent, due the States under existing laws for educational purposes. This reclamation fund is to be used for the construction and maintenance of irrigation works in the States and Territories enumerated. Only 160 acres of land can be entered, and those already ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...amount of fees paid to local land offices, and the 5 per cent, due the States under existing laws for educational purposes. This reclamation fund is to be used for the construction and maintenance of irrigation works in the States and Territories enumerated. Only 160 acres of land can be entered, and those already owning land can purchase water for only 160 acres, and will be charged the same price as if they located the land. The idea will be to encourage the actual home-builder, who will go upon and improve the land. By all who have given it any thought the passage of the irrigation bill is deemed fully as important as the passage of the original homestead act, and will result in the rapid upbuilding of the Western States. It was the one thing necessary to make it possible for "the man of the East," who was looking for a home in the Western States, to go upon this land and make a home thereon. Without water the land was of little or no value, but with water secured by irrigation, it is of immense value for agricultural purposes. It is believed that the very first work undertaken under the provision of the new irrigation law will be this low line canal of the Milk river valley. Forty-one townships, embracing 944,640 acres, have been withdrawn. Of these fully 200,000 acres can be irrigated. Those of the East looking for a chance to locate a desirable homestead need no longer hesitate settling in this portion of the Milk river valley. The Government has fully committed itself to this plan; the settler has every assurance that his land will be reclaimed and he will be charged merely the cost of reclamation. If he so desires, he can pay this cost in ten annual payments, and that without interest. And further, the Government pays the cost of maintenan...
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