Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-04

AS to preclude said company from
supplying water for other purposes
for which they shall be entitled to de.
mand and receive just compensation
That for the purpose of aiding in the
construction of said canals and bitches
there is hereby granted to said COM
pany 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 ever.
numbered sections, and to be taken
from sections and parts of sections of
the surveyed land Of the United States
not heretofore granted, reserved or
sold, or to which pre- emption or home
stead claims have not been proved
and established according to the laws
Of congress, mineral lands being en-
cepted from this grant. That as soon
as said corporation shall file in the De-
partment of the Interior map desig.
mating the lines of canals and bitches,
as near as may be, the Secretary of
the Interior shall thereupor cause the
lands hereby granted within said lin
its to be withdrawn from market; and
that the sections and parts of sections
of land which by such grant shall re-
main 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 SUBJ
ject 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 practi.
cable points, and use the waters of
said rivers and streams in aid of aud
as auxiliary to said canals and bitches.
That the Surveyor-General of Idaho
Territory, or any other person the
Secretary of the Interior may select,
is hereby constituted a commissioner
to select the lands to which said COM
pany shall be entitled under tho oro-
vision of this act, and shall, after said
maps have been filed in the Interior
Department, proceed to select said
lands, and report a map thereof to
said department; and when said COM
missioner shall be satisfied that Sec
ton of canal has been completed
in the manner required by the provi-
sions of this act, covering by it's flow
land equal to one township, he shall
forward certificate of such fact to
the Secretary Of the Interior, accom-
panied by plat of such complete
section, whereupon said Secretary of
the Interior shall cause patent to be
issued to said company for sections of
land to which it shall be entitled for
such completed section of canal or
ditch; and in like manner said com.
pany shall thereafter receive a patent
for every such section of completed
caual or ditch until the last section of
said canal or ditch, being one town.
ship or less, shall have been com.
pleted as required by this act; and if
said canals OF bitches, covering all the
land practicable to be irrigated
within the aforesaid boundary lines,
shall not be completed by the first
day of July, 1892, then the lands
hereby granted, and not already pat
anted to said company, shall revert to
the United States and be disposed of
Is other public lands.
SEC. 3. That said Surveyor General
Or any one else while acting as such
shall receive reasona-
Die compensation and his necessary
expenses, to be paid by said COM
oany.
Sec. 4. That the right is hereby ex.
oressly reserved to Congress to so
amend the provisions of this act as to
secure the benefits designed to be
conferred upon the owners and occu-
PANTS of said lands.