Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-05-13
WHAT IS THE
CAREY ACT?

= What the Carey Act is how it will be
applied i'll Nevada, and the procedure Of
reclaiming the two million acres of pub
lie desert lands granted the State BY
Congress, is the subject of Bulletin No.
2, just issued by the new Nevada Bureau
of Industry, Agriculture and Irrigation.
The bulletin contains 4S pages of printed
matter relative to the Carey Act, includ-
ing the Government and State laws, the
regulations of the Interior Department
and of the State Commission, and COM
plete explanation of its workings 1t
will be mailed to any address on request
of the bureau at Carson City, inclosing a
two cent stamp to cover postage.
There is no act of Congress of equal
Importance to arid land States, concern
ing which there il less popular informa-
ton, or, to speak plainly more miscon-
ception of its intent and purpose. While
the arid land States about us. have been
applying the law extensively the past
ten years, the inception of its applica-
ton in Nevada dates back little more
vatla is attracting great attention as a
field of exploitation under the Carey Act
and already projects and applications in
volving more than million acres of
land are OH file in the Division of Carey
Act Lands under the new bureau.
1t will surprise many to learn says
the bulletin, that no land is acquired
by any person, company or corporation
conducting Carey Act project, = for the
reason that Carey Act projects are, per
Sc, reclamation projects. undertaken to
supply water for the irrigation of given
tract of land and when completed the
person, company or corporation conduct
ing the same derives his or it's profits
from the sale of tt water rights to the
settlers on the lands" The land under
each reclamation project is set apart by
the National Government to the State
and under the terms of the new law the
State, through the commission, fixes a
price of not less than fifty cents nor
more than one dollar per acre upon the
land, the proceeds of which goes into a
trust fund in the State treasury, and
which, under the Act of Congress, can
orlv be used for the reclamation of other
desert lands in the State.
y THE FIVE STAGES OF A CAREY
ACT PROJECT.
The application for the water right in
the office of the State Engineer.
II.
The application for the temporary
withdrawal of the lands proposed to be
reclaimed by the water right from dis
posal to any other applicant under any
State or United States land laws, for the
period of one year, to enable the appli-
cant to perfect his surveys, maps, plats
and determinations in form and detail as
required by the Interior Department be-
fore approving a segregation of the lands
to the State.
The application Con the completion Of
the foregoing surveys, etc. }, for a COM
when approved by the Secretary of The
Interior, sets apart such lands, under
State control. to such irrigation projects
".
The execution of a contract with the
State, within three months after notice
of such approval, covering the construc-
ton of the irrigation works. one-tenth
completed the first year and the whole
completed within three years after con-
tract date
"
The sale of the lands by the State, and
the water rights by the contractor, as
the irrigation works are completed to
deliver water upon the lands, to settlers.
Such in substance, is the Carey Act
measure of the greatest practical ben
eficence to States like Nevada, possess
ing vast areas of desert lands requiring
capital to reclaim by the construction of
more or less expensive irrigation works.
and the reclamation of which i'll small
tracts is beyond the reach and means of
the ultimate settler. The Government,
under the National Reclamation Act,
undertakes great irrigation projects in
various sections of the West, as at Fal
lon in this State, completing the irriga-
ton system and selling the land and
water rights to settlers. Under the
Carey Act private enterprise constructs
the irrigation works, is given lien upon
the land to be reclaimed until the settler
pays for the water right, when the latter
becomes the owner, in association with
all the other settlers under project, of
the irrigation works, and the contractor
! is eliminated, with the profits lie has
)made from his enterprise by the sale of
water rights. The system has proven
pextraordinary successful in Idaho, Utah,
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