The Parker post., 1914-04-18
NEW RULESFOR
DESERT ENTRY
APPLICANT MUST SHOW sUFFL
GENT WATER TO lRRiGATE
WHOLE OF LAND AND FILE
PLANS FOR RECLAMATION

Gently been made to the desert land
regulations by Clay Tallman, Commits
sioner of the United States Land Of
| flee The amendments make it OBJ
! ligatory on the part Of an applicant
| TO definitely show a sufficient water
supply for the irrigation of the tract
of land desired to be filed upon. The
scribing in detail the character OF
the irrigation works proposed to be
constructed. Further. the applicant
must acquire a clear right to the use
of sufficient water to irrigate and re-
claim the whole of the land entered.
Following is circular 30S, address
ed to registers and receivers of Uni
tad States land offices, which gives
in full the amendments just put in
to effect by Commissioner Tallman:
Whoever makes a desert land entry
must acquire clear right to the use
claim the whole of the land entered
or as much of it as is susceptible Of
irrigation. Therefore whoever tend
ers a desert land declaration, without
definite arrangements for obtaining
water, In anticipation of the construc-
ton of extensive irrigation works
not determined upon, and where it is
not demonstrated that water can be
conserved in sufficient quantity and
conveyed to the land, does not meet
the requirements of the law, and the
declaration shall be rejected by the
register 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 re-
cord evidence of his notice of appro-
priation under applicable State laws.
In case he proposes to procure water
through an irrigation district, cor
poration, or an association, record
evidence of a contract for water
must accompany his declaration, or if
no contract can be obtained prior to
entry some written assurance from
responsible officials of such district,
corporation, or association having
either a proposed irrigation scheme,
one under construction, or one com
pleted that, if entry be allowed ap-
plicant will be able to procure from
that source the necessary water to
irrigate and reclaim the land desert
bed in the declaration.
At the time of filing his declara-
tion with the register and receiver,
the applicants must also file plans, de-
scribing, in detail, the following:
Source of water supply; character Of
the irrigation works constructed in
course of construction, or proposed to
be constructed, i. e., reservoirs for
storage, canals, fumes, or other me
thods by which water is to be con
veyed to the land; or if by diver
sion, the nature Of the flow of
streams or springs, i. E., whether per-
ennialy flowing or intermittent; char
acter of the works constructed, in
course of construction, or to be con
structed to convey water to the land
whether the irrigation works, if not
constructed, are to be built by an ir-
r1gatlOn district, corporation, an as
soclatiOn, or by applicant personally;
It the works have not been construc-
ted, then to make a general state
ment as to the proposed plan;
whether surveys therefor and other
investigations have been made, and
by whom, to demonstrate the ex-
istence of sufficient water supply
and the feasibility of the proposed
works to convey water to the land
Ii applicant or others in association
propose to construct irrigation work
lands, sworn statement must accom-
pany the declaration, containing q
general description of the proposed
works, an estimate Of the cost and
such other data as will enable the
register and receiver and the depart
ment to determine the feasibility
OF the proposed works to convey wa
ter to the lands to be irrigated If
the irrigation is proposed by means
OF artesian wells, or by pumping from
nonartesian underground sources of
water supply, evidence must be sub
mitted as to the existence of such
water supply upon or near the land
involved, including a statement as to
other wells heretofore and affording
water supply to adjoining or near
by lands. In this connection, with