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Show LID OFFfiK DDI H M Has an Important BeariSllQ the Making of DesaK'H Entries. lltX WATER IS IMPOIMp Government Must Be imfi That It Can Be ObtaM by Settler. m The United States general landlKr-m landlKr-m Washington has announced a SflLii mo" attitudo toward entries fotSSfjOl lands. Tho order, received at thB:?. land office yesterday, will havo Wfc portant bearing on all future TOP-land TOP-land entries, and will doubtleasKf volvo some disappointments untlOfe1 now provisions becomo generally "Whoever makes a desert hJjfuCt try must acquiro a clear right W uso of sufficient wntor to irricaBttC reclaim tho whole of the land mR" or as much of it as is siisceptiSPL. Pirlffam,oy announces CommiSfoM Clay Tall man ot the general land W in informing rogisters and rcceivM!"" the amendment to paragraphs lflffi,. 13 ot tho dcdort land circular. -SfW Further Provisions Continuing, tho amendmeut rea&Se" part as follows: Hftto Thcroforo, whoever tenders aSs' ert laud declaration, without dflfr into arraugcmont3 for obtainBLlti water, in anticipation of tho &is structiou of oxteusivo irrinaMLtlo works not determined upon? WSkm whore it is not demonstrated Vmnh water can be cousorvod in BuSfiv went quantity and conveyed toEJ land, docs not meet tho rcqaK rnents of the law, and the dechMK tiou shall bo rejocted by tho reX.. tor and receiver, subject to Wt usual appeal. Tf applicant propoMfiv to appropriate water for tho iEv gation of land claimed by him, iflKj must iilo with his declaration K donco of hia notice of appropriatJK.; under applicable stato lawB. In enso ho proposes to prooH! water through an irrigation distriE a corporation or an association, cordod ovidenco of a contract water must accompany hia dflclajfBPa tion, or if no contract can bo mTM tained prior to entry, somo writWaE assurance from responsible officisBM of such district, corporation or jjpk Bociation having cither a propose irrigation scheme, ono under cofljfft struction, or one completed thflw if ontry bo allowed, applicant bo ablo to procuro from that sourMilji tho nocessary water to irrigate atflld reclaim tho land doscribed in t9pK declaration, nSfl' Rule Followed in Past. Jffi In tho past a rough sketch of aJP po3cd irrigation systoin for a tracjB1 land procured under tho desort &Ct9jf usually boon considered sufficiout. der tho now ruling it will be necoHflvi for tho entryman to present plansfM scribing in detail tho sourco of wtaM supply; charactor of the irrigaflv works constructed, in tho course construction or proposed; tho natujJW tho streams or springs; whcthofMM works, if not constructed, aro tbEi built by an irrigation district, a'flp poration or association, or by thefla plicant personally ; planB for propip works, whether survoys havo been Ai and by whom, to demonstrate thoW istenco of sufficient wator supply. BS tho feasibility of tho proposed work If tho works aro to bo construct by an association or others, sworn stE ments must uccompany the dpclarMBF and contain a gonoral description ofnk proposed works and other data tojK, ablo tho registor and recoivor to dftK mino the feasibility of tho proj80tX- Proof Must Be Given. W If irrigation by wolls is p0POK proof of tho possibility of such irxB lion must bo mado. Tho dopartrJ suggests that such data should PV ably como from a licensed onginM though this is not compulsory. -rH Applicants aro warned by tho M oral land offico that thoy should ,J miliarizo thomselves with these IS rulings, bocauae in tho event they uot fulfilled, it might "result In applicants boinc put to the trouble m eiponso of filing ""PP,100? hJ ing." and it might bo "in tho lossp their claims.' ! |