The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-02-05
OF GOVERNMENT RECLAMA ton WORK
ece Report Secretary The Interior To Congress Contains Much Relative To
The Governments Arid Land Policy Including Numerous Recommendations
And Statistical Daia

sums then due the United States on
account of his land water right, may
have a patent forthwith, whereas
hitherto lie would have had to wal
until he had also paid all the 10 an
nual installments of the building
charge. Under the new statute he
gets marketable title quickly. and
the unpaid balance of his share of
the cost of the works becomes a first
lien on his land. He can therefore
mortgage it, subject to the govern
ment's lien, and thus obtain the capi-
tai necessary to develop it, The
private land owner who buys a water
right from the Reclamation Service
is put upon exactly the same footing
as the homestead entryman with re-
spect to marketable title, reclama-
ton, and cultivation. The lien of
the government is enforceable by
sale and per cent per annum is
chargeable upon all sums in default.
Dues for operation and maintenance
charges are expressly covered by the
security of The governments lien.
Pending full payment of the building
charges the holding of water right
purchasers for private lands and of
entfymen and patentees of public
lands are restricted TO one farm unit,
with provision for the forfeiture of
any excess. Desert land entries en-
braced within reclamation projects
and securing water from the pro-
ject works are placed on like foot
ing by a clause | nthe deficiency ap-
preparation act of August 26, 1912,
(37 Stat, 610). The act of July "a,
1912 t37 Stat, 2O0), authorizing
the partial assignment of desert
land entries in reclamation projects
and requiring such assignments to
conform to farm units established
by the Department on the applica-
ton of the entryman, still further
harmonizes the status Of the hom :
stead entrymen and desert land en-
trymen with reclamation projects.
The fourth section of the said act of
August 8, 1912, authorizes the des-
ignation of bonded fiscal agents or
officers of the Reclamation Service
to collect the water charges hitherto
payable to the receivers of the local
land offices, which are often not suf-
fieiently near or in touch with the
reclamation projects to make effee-
tive cooperation with the project
officials possible. Much administra-
tive improvement will certainly re-
suit from the adoption of these rec
concentrations by Congress.
National Irrigation Policy.
Ten years have now elapsed since
the passage of the Newlands Cor
Reclamation Act of June II, 1912.
That statute and the subsequent leg
islation which has grown out OF 1t
may be regarded as one of the larg-
est and most immediate applications
of the policy which has since become
known under the name "conserya-
ton of natural resources" Its pur-
pose was the use of national funds
to reclaim arid lands and secure
their subdivision into small holdings
titled by the owners thereof residing
thereon, who were to pay the costs
in not exceeding 10 annual Install
ments. The act by it's terms includ-
ed private as we'll as public lands,
and the maximum holdings of either
which could take water from the
government works was fixed at 160
acres. while the Secretary of the In
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