Show The Carey Act WASHINGTON April 20The committee com-mittee on irrigation of arid lands today to-day authorized a favorable report on a bill amendatory of the Carey act The amendments provide that where the greater part of a legal subdivision subdivis-ion is desert in character the whole shall be so considered In order to be entitled to desert lands the states aDd territories must cause to be irrigated and occupied not less than twenty acres In each 160 Such tracts must be cultivated by actual settlers within I ten years from the date of segregation |