Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-02
SYNOPSIS IF WELL KNOWN
 CAREY LAW
An Irrigation Law That Was Recently Made Applicable to the Territories of Arizona And New Mexico

For a better understanding of the Carey act recently made appl cable to the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, the international publishes the following from the Florence Trib- une:
 The Carey act provides that there shall be donated, by the government of the United States, to each state and territory asking for the same, i,O00.000 acres of arid land, provided the legislature of such states and ter r.tories shall enact a law accepting such donation in accordance with the act of congress and providing proper legal machinery for carrying out the provisions of the act This machin- cry consists of a state or territorial engineer and board of water comm g. sioners who shall have general direc- ton of all reclamation enterprises under the Carey act within their jur- isdiction. When these official posi- tions shall have been created. by law. and the offic als appointed to fill them shall have qualified, any individual, or combination of individuals, or cor poration, who may desire to reclaim body of unpatented land must pro ceed in the following manner: They must submit to the territorial engi- neer a sworn statement showing,
 First. The number Of acres of land they desire to reclaim, its loca- ton and character.
 Second. That they have filed up- on sufficient amount of water-not previously appropriated-to perma- nently irrigate the acreage of land de scribed, or that they intend to i'm pound a suffic ent amount of flood waters for the permanent Irrigation of said lands.
 Third. The foregoing statement must De accompanied by maps, sur veys, water measurements. plans. specifications. etc, of the proposed Irrigation system. There must also accompany the aforementioned data a duly executed contract with the ter ritory, spec flying that a perpetual water right appurteDant of each acre )f land reclaimed, will be sold to each Jettied entering land under the sys-
 em, at a stated price to be paid in ien annual installmenIs.
 If, after careful eXaminat on of
 he papers, the territorial engineer md water commissioners consider the project feasible, they will approve and forward the pare-s 70 Washing ton and an order will h9 r-ade segre- gating the lands described and author izing the territory to sell it to bona fde settlers. in tracts conta ming not more than 160 acres, at 50 cents per acre, one-half to be paid at the time of entry and the other half at the time of filing the final proof of recia- nation and settlement, and at this time patent to the land will issue.
 During the years allowed the set tier in which to make full payment on his water rights, he shaHs not be charged any water rental but VII be required to pay legal interest on the amount due on his water right, and be taxed his pro rata of the cost ot keeping the canal system in repair. When all the water rights shall have been paid for. the entire irrigation plant and system must be turned ov- CT to the land owners under 1t wth- ont additional charge, and the system will then become a cooperative one and henceforth the water will cost the settler nothing but his pro rata of Keeping the system in repair.
 The 50 cents per acre paid to the territory by the settler goes Into the terr' 'torial treasury as Q reserve fund to pay the expenses of the offices of