American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-04-23
CIRCULAR No. 3OS
Amendment Of Paragraphs IL and Ii
of Desert Land Regulations.

of Desert Land Regulations. I
Department of the Interior, general
land office, Washington, March %,
1914.
Registers and Receivers United
States and Offices.
Sirs: Paragraphs II and 1S of the
desert land circular are hereby amend
ed to read as follows:
Whoever makes a desert land entry
must acquire a clear right to the use
of sufficient water to irrigate and re-
claim the whole of the land entered
OF as much of it as is susceptible of
irrigation. Therefore whoever tenders
a desert AND declaration, without def
mite arrangements for obtaining water,
in anticipation of the construction OF
extensive irrigation works not deter
mined upon, and where it is not con-
veyed to the land, does not meet the
requirements of the law, and the dec
laration shall be rejected by the regis
ter and receiver, subject to the usual
right of appeal. If applicant proposes
to appropriate water for the irrigation
of the land claimed by him he must
file with his declaration record evil
dence of his notice of appropriation
under applicable state laws. In case
he proposes TO procure water through
an irrigation district, a corporation, or
an association, record evidence OF a
contract for water must accompany
his declaration, or il no contract a
! be obtained prior to entry some writ
[ ten assurance from responsible OH
: Gals of such district, corporation, or
l association having either a proposed
; irrigation scheme, n under construc-
ton. or one completed that, if entry be
allowed, applicant will be able to pro-
I cure from that source the necessary
water to irrigate and reclaim the land
described il the declaration.
At the time of filing his declaration
with the register and receiver, the ap-
plicant must also file plans, describ-
ing. in detail, the following: Source
of water supply; character of the IT.
rigation works constructed, in course
of construction, or proposed TO be con
structed, i. e., reservoirs for storage
canals, fumes, or other methods by
which water is to be conveyed to the
land; or if by diversion, the nature o.
the flow of streams or springs, /. e.
whether p%erennially flowing OF inter
mittent: character of the works con
structed, in course of construction, OF
70 be constructed to convey water t'
the land; whether the irrigation works
if not constructed. are to be built by al
irrigation district, corporation, an as
sociation, or by applicant personally
if the works have not been construct
ed. then to make a general state
ment as 10 the proposed plan
whether surveys therefor and other in
v~estigations have beer made, and b,
whom. to demonstrate the existenc
of a sufficient water supply n tn
feasibility of the proposed works I
convey water to. the land. If appli
cant or others in association propos
= TO construct irrigation works for tn
reclamation of their own lands,
sworn statement must accompany th
declaration, containing a genral des
cription of the proposed works, a
estimate of the cost, and such othe
data as will enable the register an
receiver and the department to detel
mine the feasibility of the propose
works to convey water to the lands
be irrigated. If the irrigation is PR
posed by means of artesian wells, {
bv pumping from nonartesian unde
ground sources of water supply, ev
dence must be submitted as to u
existence of such water supply upc
or near the land involved, including
statement as to other wells theretofo
sunk and affording a water supply
adjoining or nearby lands. In tn
connection, with respect to the lal
itself. specific showing must be su
mitted as to its approximate elevatio
character of the soil, and to what poi
upon the tract the ditch or lateral
to be extended; also, that the land
. of such contour that it can be irrigs
'ne ed from the proposed canal or later
III The map required to be filed by sc
for ton 4 of the act of March 3, is
tify C9e Stat. 1095), must be sufficient
I'm. definite and accurate preferably, b
If. not necessarily, prepared by licens