Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-27
GOVERNMENT NOTICES

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, May 20. 1911. Shoshone Pro-
ject, Wyoming, Public Notice-Pursuant to
ma Act Of I June Sefo iso % 49, ' STATS sef a
Water will be furnished from the shoshone
of the Reclamation Act in the irrigation
season of 1911 for the irrigable lands in
59e third unit sh9%n on farm unit Plats
and Townships 81 and 50 y nth. Range 100
West, Sixth Principal Meridian, approved
Interior and on file in the local land Of
flee at Lander, wyoming. 2 Homestead
entries, accompanied by applications for
the charges for building, operation and
maintenance may be made on and after
June q, 1911, beginning at u o'clock m,
under the provisions Of said act for the
farm units shown on said plats. Water
right applications may also be made for
lands heretofore entered and for lands
payments will be due therefor is herein
after. stated. 8. Warning is hereby ex-
mitted to gain or exercise any right what
ever under any settlement or occupation
begun prior to July To- 1911. on any lands
shown on said plats provided, however,
that this shall not interfere with any
valid existing rights obtained by settle
ment or entry while the land was subject
thereto. 4. The limit of area per entry,
representing the acreage which in the
opinion of the Secretary of the Interior
port of a family in the lands entered sub
ject to the provisions of the Reclamation
Act, Is fixed at the amounts shown on
the plats for the several farm units The
limit of area for which water-right APP
pliCatfon may be made for lands in private
ownership shall be 100 acres of irrigable
land for each land owner. 8. The charges
which shall be made for each acre Of
irrigable land in the said entries and for
OTnsrsh s2e In Rsrf pars @
(a) The building of the irrigation sys-
tenn, sF per acre of irrigable land, pay
able in not more than ten annual in
$40, or some multiple thereof. per acre.
Full payment may be made at any time
manning due, after certificatlon by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
that full and satisfactory compliance has
been shown with all the requirements of
the law as to residence, cultivation and
reclamation. Cb) For operation and main
tenance for the irrigation season of 1911
and annually thereafter until further
notice, $1.00 per acre Of irrigable land,
whether water is used thereon or not.
AS soon as the data are available the
operation and maintenance charges will be
fixed in proportion to the amount of water
used, with minimum charge per acre
thereon or not. 6. All entries made there
after for any of the lands described,
whether for lands not heretofore entered
or for lands covered by prior entries
which have been cancelled by relinquish-
ment or otherwise, shall be accompanied
Applications
form, and by the first installment of the
charges for building, operation and main
tenance, not less than $50 per acre OF ir-
rigable land except where payments have
been duly made by the prior applicants
and credits therefor duly assigned in writ
ing. The second installment shall become
due on December l of the following year.
Subsequent installments shall become due
December / Of each year thereafter until
fully paid For lands IN private bt0r owner tS
first installment of The said charges shall
become due on December l, 1911, The sec
ond installment shall be due on December
/ 1912 Subsequent instailments shall re-
due on December l. of each year there
after until fully paid. Z; Entries and
subsequent years must, in addition to one
full installment of the charges, be accom-
panied by an amount equal to the portions
| Grafton and maintenance which would
have been payable had the entry and
wat.eHTr-right application been made in 1911 81,
| all irrigable areas shown on these pla,s
whether or not water-right application
on, shall be due and payable as herein
in Township "a North, Range 100 West
| enclosed in a square,, will be irrigated at
a later date by the construction OF the
High Line Canal at which time water
| right applications will be required therefor
| 10. The regulations hereby established that
no water will be furnished In any year
/ until the portions LOT operation ana main
| tenance of all installments then due shall
| have been paid. Accordingly, no water
| will be furnished for the irrigation season
| of 1912 for any lands unless the portion
! for operation and maintenance of the in
stallment due on December l, 1911, has been
| paid, and in like manner, no water will
| be furnished In any subsequent irrigation
| season until payment has been made Of
! the portions of the installments for OPP
|. Grafton and maintenance beginning with
/ the year 1911 then remaining due and I'M
paid. IL. Failure to pay any two install
| ments of the charges when due, whether
on entries made subject to the Reclamation
| Act or on water-right applications for
| other lands. shall render such entries and
| the corresponding water-right applications,
| II any, or the water-right applications for
! other lands, subject TO cancellation with
! the forfeiture OF all rights under the
| Reclamation Act. as well as of any moneys
| already paid. r. All charges must be
| paid at the local land office at Lander,
| Wyoming The charges may, however, for
| the convenience Of applicants be paid to the
| special fiscal agent of the United States
! Reclamation service assigned TO the
! Shoshone project, for transmission to the
register and receiver OF the local land Of
| flee on or before the date specified for
| payment at the local land office, but in
case this privilege is awaited of the neces-
| saTy charges for the transportation Of the
, cash, as determined by the special fiscal
| agent must accompany the payment OF the
| Water-right charges.
| (Sgned) WALTER l.. FISHER,
M.Edlt. Secretary of the Interior.