Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-14
INTRODUCES BILL FOR DEVELOPMENT
 OF COLORADO RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION

in accordance with modern methods of scientific town planning, and the lots within any town site established here under may be disposed of in accord ance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. The Secretary is further authorized to set apart and reserve for school, park, or other pub lie purposes not more than twenty acres in any one town site, and patents shall issue for the lands so set apart for school, park, or other public pur- poses to the municipality legally charged with the care and custody of lands donated for such purposes. The Secretary is further authorized to sell to such municipalities water for the same from the irrigation system con- structed under this Act. All proceeds from the sale of lands and water rights in connection with such town sites shall be covered into the Colo rado River Indian Reservation devel- opment fund established herein.
 Sec. 6. That the land within the reservation classified as nonirrigable grazing land shall be sold to the highest bidder at not less than the appraised value, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may pre- scribe.
 Sec 7 That the land within the reservation classified as mineral land shall be subject to location and entry under the general mining laws of the United States, except that entrymen of such lands shall pay the appraised valre thereof in five annual install ments, under such rules and regula- tions as the Secretary may prescribe and no patent covering any sucn en- try shall issue until all payments therefor have been made.
 Sec. 8. That there are hereby es- tablished in the Treasury of the Unit ed States two separate funds, one to be known as the Colorado River In dian Reservation Fund.-" which shall contain moneys belonging to the ln- dians of the reservation, and another to be known as the "Colorado River Indian Reservation Development Fund" which shall contain moneys to be used for the purpose of developing the lands of the reservation, through the establishment of towns under sec tion 5, the building of irrigation works under section 10, and the in struction and rehabilitation of dis abled veterans under sections Il and 12. Sec. g. That the proceeds derived from the sale of nonirrigable-graz'ng land under section 6, and the proceeds derived from payments made on the appraised value of mineral land under
 section 7, shall be covered into the Colorado River Indian Reservation
 Fund. The United States shall pay into said fund the appraised value Of
 all the land classified as irrigable
 under section 3, including the land
 granted the State of Arizona under
 section 4 and the land reserved for
 town-site purposes under section D. lAll moneys in said fund shall draw
 interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum. From said fund relm-
 bursement shall first be made to the
 United States for the moneys expend-
 ed in the survey, allotment, classifl-
 cation, appraisement, and sale of all of said land of the reservation as
 hereinbefore provided, excluding, how. ever, the expense of development ano , sale of lands in town sites. As soon , as determinable, there shall be trans . ferred from said fund to the Colorado } River Indian Reservation Development Fund the amount of that part of the construction cost of the irrigation
 system to be constructed under thl' : Act which is properly chargeabl' r against the irrigable lands allotted t' l the Indians of the reservation. Th 5 remainder of the moneys in the Colo = rado River Indian Reservation Fun' y shall b eavailable for expenditur 0 from time to time by the Secretary 10 5, the purpose of encouraging industr,