Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-04-09
A BUDGET or
WASHINGTON NEWS
The Irrigation Bill as Amended Seems to Sat-
isfy tho Friends Of the Arid Land States
and May Pass Congress in Its
Present Form. (
IMPORTANT LEGISLATION AFFECTING
MINES AND ENTRY UPON PUBLIC. LANDS

Washington dispatches:
The house committee on mines ar
mining has reported favorably the b
recently passed by the senate to pr
vide for the repayment of unexpendt
moneys deposited to cover the costs
plating and office work in connectic
with mining claims. This law is mat
necessary by decision of the seer,
tary Of tse int-f,er to the effect tht
there is no authority of law for return
ing moneys deposited for plating sui
veys of mining claims which is in es
cess of the amount required for tha
purpose.
THE IRRIGATION BILL.
Mr.. Mondell of Wyoming, has report
led the irrigation bill as adopted by tn
house committee on irrigation on Sat
urday last. This is the bill recent
passed by the senate with such amend
ments as had been affixed to the hous
bill added and a few minor changes il
the clauses pertaining to the state con
troll of waters and the closing of land
that are to be surveyed with view t,
the erection of irrigation works. In re
gard to the latter it has been agreed
that lands shall be withdrawn to al
entry, except homestead, when survey.
have been ordered thereon. Home
seekers will be allowed to take III
lands at any stage of the proceedings
IhtIt ri, acta ,,,;I1 La
to live five years on the section he ac.
quires. George HI. Maxwell of the nat.
ional irrigation association, who up tt
recently has been offering strenuous
cation bill, said today he was satisfied
with the bill as it now stands. He said
he had no further objection to make
and hoped the bill would pass.
Concerning the expense of irrigation
works, Mr.. Mondell said that the most
exaggerated statements have been
made as to the probable aggregate out
'lay. Gas a matter of fact" said Mr..
Mondell, mot a penny of the sum
raised by taxation will be taken from
the national treasury. The expendi-
lures under the bill are limited to the
proceeds of the sales of public lands in
the states affected by the bill, and this
expenditure is principally in the nature
of a loan, as the settler pays back to
the government the cost of irrgatio
works. The only expenditures under
the bill not reimbursable would be cer-
tain items of administration, surveys
and examinations of projects, and it
would be a high estimate to place
these expenditures at 100000 per an
mum, after the system Is we'll Inaugural
ted. This is about the sum which it
costs to maintain the congressional lib
rary"
REPAYMENT OF LAND FEES.
Senator Mitchelrs bill providing for
the repayment of certain fees, purchase
money and commissions paid on void
entries on public lands, passed the SEN
ate on Monday. The measure provides
for repayment of fees and purchase
money in all cases where homestead or
timber culture, desert land or other en-
tries which have been or shall hereaf-
ter be cancelled or relinquished on ac-
count of conflict, or where, from any
cause entry has been enormously al
lowed and cannot be confirmed. Also
where parties as -emptors or home
stead claimants have paid the double
minimum price for land afterward
found not to be within the limits of
land grant, the excess of $1.25
per acre so paid shall be repaid to en-
trymen.
PLATING THE GRAND CANON.
The most elaborate plating the
Grand Canon has ever had is now in
progress under an expedition of the
United States geological survey, head
ed by E. E. Mathes. The party has
just started at work at the end of the
Grand Canon railroad and will remain
in the field eight months, during which
the region for about sixty
miles west of the mouth of the Little
Colorado river.
The mapping will be upon the scale
If mile to the inch, and will be issued
to the public in the usual manner in
sheets of 20 square miles. Bench marks
will be placed at all prominent points
giving details of elevation and survey
The work will be done almost exclu-
sively by triangulation from carefully
bases at the edge of the
,anon, as 1t will be manifestly impossi-
Die to measure the gorge by the usual
ape, and rod methods of the surveyor.
The main points from which the trian-
yulation measurements will be taken
will be: Bill Williams mountain back
If Williams, Mount Kendrick northeast
If Williams, and Red Butte, which
les Immediately north of Williams,
lbout Is miles from the canon. On
zach Of these hills bronze tablets and
arge signals will be placed.
A ROUGH RIDER WITH ROOsE-
WELT.
Samuel Bell Of Victor who has re-
NAMED in Washington for several
weeks, left Monday for Colorado. He
eceived warm invitation to accom-
,any President Roosevelt on his trip to
Mr.. Bell and. the president
we're comrades in the Rough Rider
egiment in Cuba.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS-DEACH Ill.
no Budget Statement Was Therefore Postponed Until
Monday d Next Week.