Report on Federal Reclamation to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 133 halaman |
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ACRE DOLLARS Acres cropped agricultural All-American Canal allocation Amount repaid Annual gross crop Average gross value benefits Boise project Bureau of Reclamation canal committee Construction authorized construction charges construction cost Construction expenditure crop production crop value Entire crops per acre Dam completed debt desirable Division Drainage economic enterprise Farm Credit Administration farms irrigated Federal reclamation FIGURE Fort Shaw future projects granted for 1931 gross crop value improvement interest investment IRRIGABLE AREA irrigation development King Hill Kittitas ment Milk River MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Moratorium granted Newlands project North Platte project NUMBER OF FARMS operation payment percent planning power plant power revenues present Public Notice Public Works Administration Reclamation Act reclamation fund reclamation projects regions repaid by water repayment Riverton Salt River settlement settlers Shoshone project storage stream basin Sun River THOUSANDS OF ACRES utilization value Entire project value of crops water resources water supply western Yuma
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Halaman 92 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses...
Halaman 92 - ... will be best adapted to a comprehensive scheme of improvement and utilization for the purposes of navigation, of water-power development, and of other beneficial public uses; and if necessary in order to secure such scheme the commission shall have authority to require the modification of any project and of the plans and specifications of the project works before approval.
Halaman 76 - Many of the projects had been in operation for a quarter of a century, yet repayments amounted to little more than 25 percent of the obligated debt. A report issued by the Department of the Interior in 1934 read: "It is a pertinent fact that although the reclamation debt is a prior lien on the land, yet in very few cases during the entire history of reclamation has the lien been enforced by legal process, despite thousands of cases of nonpayment. Fully as much as a quarter of a century ago the reclamation...
Halaman 111 - City, to make an independent study of typical Federal projects for the purpose of ascertaining the true conditions. After a careful investigation of many of the Bureau's projects, Mr. Haw and Mr. Schmitt made a detailed and valuable report from the summary, of which these paragraphs are quoted...
Halaman 111 - States is shown by its results to be a sound and desirnble national undertaking. It represents a constructive policy of social development. Reclamation should be continued by the Federal Government as available means may permit. It has little relation to the problems of surplus agricultural production, while, on the other hand, by reason of its high degree of stability, it aids in making the country's food supply more regular, which In turn tends to reduce the fluctuations of the agricultural price...
Halaman 48 - Records were obtained of the expenditures for purchases outside of the local trade territory by representative farmers, covering a period of 7 to 10 years. They show that 75 to 80 per cent of the farm income was thus spent on the purchase of commodities produced in the industrial sections of the United States; in other words, only about one-fourth of the farm production income was used for irrigation operation, tax payments, labor and local supplies, while three-fourths went into the general industrial...
Halaman 77 - ... banking basis for the debt and the application of rigid banking methods for collection. Such a system would also accomplish the essential purpose of taking the subject out of politics.
Halaman 18 - Cleveland, Ohio; Elwood Mead, Berkeley, Calif.; and John A. Widtsoe, Salt Lake City, Utah: The purpose of this letter is to Invite you to serve, with six other men having national confidence, 'on a fact-finding commission to make an intensive study of the policy, application, and operation of Government methods of reclaiming arid lands by irrigation, which has become a matter of national concern.
Halaman 50 - As the application of a new payment system after change of legislation authorizing extension of term was in most cases applied only to the unpaid balance, the basis of repayment at present in force is best described in terms of the total annual repayment of all the projects. As stated in section 1, this annual repayment for current years (suspended 1931 to 1934 by moratorium acts, however) is approximately $3,000,000, representing slightly less than \\ percent of the total repayable Government expenditures.
Halaman 16 - Under the act of December 5, 1924, the Secretary was authorized to require of each applicant such qualification as to industry, experience, character, and capital as to give reasonable assurance of success. Applicants are now required to appear before an examining board to be rated as to their qualifications ; in case of more than one application for the same farm unit the applicant having the highest rating is permitted to make entry.