Newlands Project, Nevada: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on the Contemporary Needs and Management of Federal Reclamation Projects which are Operated Or Overseen by the Secretary of the Interior Through the U.S. Bureau of ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 |
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Halaman 110 - ... purposes that the water must be beneficially used by actual application on the land. Prosole v. Steamboat Canal Co., 37 Nev. 154, 159-161, 140 P. 720, 722 (1914). Such a right is appurtenant to the land on which it is used. Id., at 160-161, 140 P., at 722. In the light of these cases, we conclude that the Government is completely mistaken if it believes that the water rights confirmed to it by the Orr Ditch decree in 1944 for use in irrigating lands within the Newlands Reclamation Project were...
Halaman 109 - See ante, at 144, n. 16. In the final analysis, our decision today is that thousands of small farmers in northwestern Nevada can rely on specific promises made to their forebears two and three generations ago, and solemnized in a judicial decree, despite strong claims on the part of the Pyramid Lake Paiutes.
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Halaman 109 - ownership" of the water rights was at most nominal; the beneficial interest in the rights confirmed to the Government resided in the owners of the land within the Project to which these water rights became appurtenant upon the application of Project water to the land. As in Ickes v Fox and Nebraska v Wyoming, the law of the relevant State and the contracts entered into by the landowners and the United States make this point very...
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Halaman 106 - Thank you. [The prepared statement of Mr. Howard follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF PHILIP K. HOWARD Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today on the issue of "Safeguarding Americans from a Legal Culture of Fear.