Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-13

water-level at least sixty feet in width,
six feet deep, and an average current
of one mile per hour. 1t shall be the |
duty of said company to keep the
same in suitable repair and condition.,
SO that every occupant and owner OF 4
lands within the fowage Of said canals
shall, during every season, be able TO
procure proportionate share Of water
for irrigation, for which said company
shall have the right to demand and
collect reasonable tolls or compensa-
ton. But nothing herein contained
shall be SO construed as to preclude
said company from supplying water,
for other purposes for which they shall
be entitled to demand and receive
Just compensation. That for the
purpose Of aiding in the construction
of said canals and bitches there is
hereby granted to said company every
alternate section within the limits of
the above described territory of land
that is practicable to irrigate; said
land to be selected from the even
numbered sections, and to be taken
from sections and parts of sections of
the surveyed land of the United
States not heretofore granted, re-
served or sold, Or to which pre-emption
or homestead claims have not been
proved and established according to
the laws of Congress-, mineral lands
being excepted from this grant. That
as soon as said corporation shall file
in the Department of the Interior a
map designating the lines Of canals
and bitches, as near as may be, the
Secretary of the Interior shall there
upon cause the lands hereby granted
within said limits to be withdrawn
from market; and that the sections
and parts of sections of land which by
such grant shall remain to the United
States within said limits of this grant
shall not be sold for less than double
the minimum price of the public lands
where sold, nor shall any of said lands
become subject to private entry until
the same have been first offered at
public sale at the increased price. Said
company shall also have the right to
construct dams across any of the
rivers and streams at any convenient
and practicable points and use the
waters Of said rivers and streams in
aid of and as auxiliary to said canals
and bitches. That the Surveyor-Gen-
eral of Idaho Territory, or any other
person the Secretary of the interior
may select, is hereby constituted 9
commissioner to select the lands tc
which said company shall be entitled
under the provisions of this act, and
shall, after said maps are filed in the
Interior Department, proceed to select
said lands, and report map thereof
to said department; and when said
commissioner shall be satisfied that 9
section Of canal has been completed
in the manner required by the pro
visions of this act, covering by its
flow land equal to one township, he
shall forward certificate Of such fact
to the Secretary of the Interior, ac
companied by plat of such completed
section, whereupon said Secretary o
the Interior shall cause patent to bt
issued to said company for sections o
, land to which it shall be entitled fol
such completed section Of canal o.
ditch; and in like manner said com
pany shall thereafter receive paten
for every such section of completed
canal or ditch until the last section o
said canal or ditch. being one town
ship or less, shall have been completed
as required by this act; and if sale
canals or bitches, covering all the
land practicable to be irrigated within
: the aforesaid boundary lines, shall no
be completed by the first day of July
1892, then the lands hereby granted
and not already patented to said com
pany, shall revert to the United States
and be disposed of as other public
: lands.
SEC. 3. That said Surveyor-Gen
eral or any one else while acting a.
such commissioner shall receive {
reasonable compensation and his
! necessary expenses, to be paid by saio
company.
SEC. 4. That the right is hereby
! expressly reserved to Congress to sc
amend the provisions of this act as tt
, secure the benefits designed to bt
! conferred upon the owners and oc
cupants of said lands,