Michaud Flats Project, Idaho. Letter...pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 95 pages |
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... tracts for 23,300 acre - feet of American Falls space and 40,900 acre- feet of Palisades space be entered into by the Falls Irrigation District before construction work is initiated . ( c ) The following principal features and such ...
... tracts for 23,300 acre - feet of American Falls space and 40,900 acre- feet of Palisades space be entered into by the Falls Irrigation District before construction work is initiated . ( c ) The following principal features and such ...
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... tracts accounted for about 8,000 acres . Water rights of these and other smaller tracts date from 1879 to 1886 . Irrigated acreage in the Michaud Flats project area totaled only about 400 acres in 1949 , and water was obtained almost ...
... tracts accounted for about 8,000 acres . Water rights of these and other smaller tracts date from 1879 to 1886 . Irrigated acreage in the Michaud Flats project area totaled only about 400 acres in 1949 , and water was obtained almost ...
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... tracts , topographically less favorable for cultivation , remain in the native cover of sagebrush , annual grasses , and weeds . Irrigation by diversion of small streams tributary to Snake River reached its maximum development early in ...
... tracts , topographically less favorable for cultivation , remain in the native cover of sagebrush , annual grasses , and weeds . Irrigation by diversion of small streams tributary to Snake River reached its maximum development early in ...
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... tracts throughout the area , are rougher than the class 2 lands and in places have shallower topsoils over the calcareous subsoil accumulation which will make them more costly to keep in production . Topography is the major deficiency ...
... tracts throughout the area , are rougher than the class 2 lands and in places have shallower topsoils over the calcareous subsoil accumulation which will make them more costly to keep in production . Topography is the major deficiency ...
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... tracts before land preparation would point the way toward safe development and management practice . The rough topography of the class 4S lands is best suited to sprinkler irrigation . Heavy grading required to prepare these lands for ...
... tracts before land preparation would point the way toward safe development and management practice . The rough topography of the class 4S lands is best suited to sprinkler irrigation . Heavy grading required to prepare these lands for ...
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_do_ acre-feet acreage adjusted payment capacity Alfalfa American Falls Dam American Falls pumping American Falls Reservoir aquifers arable average basalt Bureau of Reclamation cash-crop farms class 2 land Clay correlation areas crops dairy Deep Creek Mountains depth distribution drainage drawdown drilled Driller reported dry-farmed Eagle Rock estimated facilities Falls and Palisades Falls pumping plant Farm budget farm investment farms on class Federal financial summary Fish and Wildlife grain gravel ground water ground-water Hall Indian Idaho Idaho Power Co investigation irrigable acres irrigated lands irrigation area Land class livestock logs Main Canal Michaud Flats project miles Neeley obsidian obtained Palisades Reservoirs percent Portneuf River Power County production project lands proposed recharge representative farms return flow rhyolite sand Sandstone Snake River Plain soils sprinkler storage Stovepipe sugar beets surface water town of American tract tuff water supply water table water users water-bearing yields
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Page iii - Interior, and with the head of the agency exercising administration "over the wildlife resources of the particular State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed...
Page xvii - Interior, is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17,. 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works in connection therewith as he may deem necessary for irrigation purposes.
Page 33 - Subcommittee on Benefits and Costs of the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, Proposed Practices for Economic Analysis of River Basin Projects: Report to the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, May, 1950.
Page iii - Oregon for comments from the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of that State in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat.
Page iii - Interior, the proposed works shall not be deemed authorized except upon approval by an Act of Congress ; and subsection 9 (a) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) and subsection 3 (a) of the Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1418), as amended, are hereby amended accordingly.
Page x - Flats project to your program before I transmit the report to the Congress for its consideration and appropriate action in accordance with the provisions of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939.
Page xiii - Flats project and that you authorize me in your behalf to transmit copies to the States of the Columbia River Basin and to the Secretary of the Army in accordance with requirements of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat.
Page iii - River Basin and to the Secretary of the Army in accordance with the requirements of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887), and to the...
Page x - Army in accordance with the provisions of section 1 (c) of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887...
Page xiii - Idaho for the views and recommendations of the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of that State, in accordance with provisions of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat.