Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-01-17
the conditions of the trust should be sub.
ytantially as follows:

stantially as follows:
First. That each state and territory
desiring to accept the conditions OF the
trust shall, through its legislature, divide
the state or territory into irrigation dis
tricts or declare the entire state or terri
tory one district, and shall provide tor
the appointment of board of irrigation
commissioners, of which the surveyor
general or other officer of like duties in
the state or territory shall be member
e1-oficio; said commissioners shall be ap-
pointed by the governor and confirmed
by the senate or council, and the mem
bers of the board thus created shall be
divided As equally among the different
political parties as possible, in each state
or territory. The salary of said commits
sioners shall not exceed IS per day and
travelling expenses when actually en-
ployed, and their duties shall be fully de-
fined.
Second. That each state and territory,
through its board of irrigation commits
sioners, shall proceed without unnecessary
delay to make surveys in the different ir-
rigation districts or sub-distrlcts, to as
certain what lands can be brought under
irrigation and for the purpose of segre-
eating the irrigable from the non-irrig-
able lands. As soon as the segregation in
any district or sub-district is completed
the board of irrigation commissioners
may lease the non-irrigable lands for a
term of years not exceeding 20 at a rental
of not less than cents an acre annually,
for the benefit of the public school fund
of the state or territory; Provided That
no land shall be SO leased that is adjacent
to lands declared irrigable and that should
form an adjunct to said irrigable lands.
Provided further, That all persons own
ing irrigable lands shall have the first
privilege of leasing or purchasing the
non-irrigable lands that naturally should
form an adjunct to their irrigable lands,
but not to an extent of more than ten
acres of non-irrigable land to one of ir-
rigable.
Third. Where large water sheds or
plateaux are found non-irrigable and not
adjacent to or needed as an adjunct to
irrigable land, such land may be surveyed
and leased in tracts of the size deemed
advisable by the board of irrigation COM
missioners for not less than cents per
acre, for the benefit of the public school
fund and other institutions of learning,
in character, as the legis-
lature may determine.
Fourth. The lands segregated as ir-
rigable lands, as herein provided, may be
reclaimed by the state or territory by
making contract through the board OF
irrigation commissioners to complete
the work of damming streams, making
canals, laterals and storage reservoirs in
with the plans and specifica-
lions made by the board of irrigation
with any person, firm or
corporation, in the following manner:
The letting of all contracts shall be ad-
vertised in three or more daily papers in
The state or territory where such contract
Is to be made, and at least one of the daily
papers of the cities of New York, Chi
,ago, St. Louis, Denver and Salt Lake,
for at least thirty days prior to the date
If opening bids, and the contract shall
% given to the lowest bidder, reserving
he righ to reject any and all bids.
Upon letting any contracts for the con-
Itruction of dams, canals, reservoirs,
,r bitches or other work yfor the reclama-
ion of arid lands, the board of irrigation
shall notify the governor,
whose duty it shall be to prepare and
ssue bonds of the state or territory to
he amount of said contract price, bear
ng not more than 6 per cent interest per
.nnum, said bonds to be placed in the
lands of the state or territorial treasurer,
% be disposed of by him or such other
party as the legislature may designate.
ID Cc;l shall ho cn1l |
or less amount than their par value,
Ind the money obtained from the sale OF
Iaid bonds shall be appropriated to pay !
he contractors on said work, and for no
,ther purpose. Provided further, That
he state or territorial treasurer shall ad- |
rance money to the contractors upon es-
;imates furnished monthly by the sur
veyor general, approved by the board Of
irrigation commissioners, withholding at
east 10 per cent of said estimates until
he completion of the work and the same
8 approved by the governor and presi-
lent of the United States.
As soon as practicable after approval
If the work as completed and satisfactory
oy the president of the United States
he board of irrigation commissioners
,hall survey all lands reclaimed and made
rrigable into tracts not exceeding l6O
acres each, and the pasturage land made
adjunct to each tract, and fix value
Upon each tract and adjunct tract. The
;otal value 80 fixed shall be the actual
,ost of reclamation, and the state or ter
ritory shall sell to actual settlers one
;ract each and the adjunct thereto, at the
= ,;oa on Gvod xu;th animal tov for ra mira
ind supervision, and no more.
Fifth. 1t shall be the duty of the board
of irrigation commissioners to report to
;he governor of the state or territory
when any work is completed. Upon the
receipt of such report he shall make a
thorough personal examination of the
same, calling to his aid such engineering
assistance as he deems advisable, to en-.
able him to make full and accurate re-
port showing whether the contract has
been complied with or not, and if SO
whether there is water that can be util-
zed by the system of canals, storage
reservoirs and laterals to irrigate the
amount of land shown upon the maps and
BY the field notes of the board of irriga-
lion commissioners, and he shall report
;he same to the president of the United
States.
Sixth. The president of the United
States, upon receiving such report show
ing that everything has been done to
comply with the intent and meaning of
his act, shall issue patent to the state
or territory for the land reclaimed and
The pasturage lands made adjunct there
10.